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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
Negative
Life
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Didn
Fats
Thing
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Bed
Always
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Never
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Men

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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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