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I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.

Erica Jong

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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
Thinking
Restrictions
Restriction
Sexuality
Afraid
Women
Always
Men
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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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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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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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