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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
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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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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Solitude is considered un-American.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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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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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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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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