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The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.

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
Joy
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Fun
Partner
Quality
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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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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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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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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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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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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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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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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