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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.

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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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Lovers
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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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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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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