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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.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Erica Mann Jong
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
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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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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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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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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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