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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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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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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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