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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.

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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
Perfect
Reality
Anything
Fantasies
Fantasy

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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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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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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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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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Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
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