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Most sex is not really intimate.

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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
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
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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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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.
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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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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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