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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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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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 have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
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