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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.

Erica Jong

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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
Loss
Pretty
Woman
Feels
Great
Always
Pursued
Like
Lovers
Losing

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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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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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