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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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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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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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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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