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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
Reality
Anything
Fantasies
Fantasy
Sex
Perfect

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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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Hate generalizes love is particular.
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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
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