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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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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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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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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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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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