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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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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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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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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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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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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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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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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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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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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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