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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Erica Mann Jong
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
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in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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