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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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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Solitude is un-American.
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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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