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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.

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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
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Doe
Anything
Even
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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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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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
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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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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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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
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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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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
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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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