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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
Sex
Really
Intimate

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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.
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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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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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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Love gives without taking
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
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