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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Homosexuality
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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