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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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Most sex is not really intimate.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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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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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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