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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.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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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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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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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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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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