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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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Two
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Homosexuality

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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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