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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.

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
Life
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People
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Religion
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Trying
Connect
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Satisfying

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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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