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Most sex is not really intimate.

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
Intimate
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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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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
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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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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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