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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
Fantasies
Fantasy
Sex
Perfect
Reality
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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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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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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