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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.

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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Needs
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Finish
Necessarily
Inspire
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Everything
Book

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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Most sex is not really intimate.
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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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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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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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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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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Love gives without taking
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Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
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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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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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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.
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