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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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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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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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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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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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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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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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