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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.

Erica Jong

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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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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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