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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
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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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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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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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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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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