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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
Fun
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Perfect
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Men
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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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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.
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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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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There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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