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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.

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
Life
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Fats
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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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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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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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.
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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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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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