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Love is everything it's cracked up to be

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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
Cracked
Everything
Love

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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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Love gives without taking
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Solitude is un-American.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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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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