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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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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
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I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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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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At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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