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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.

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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
Cynical
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Sex
Meaning
Become
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Epiphany

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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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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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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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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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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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