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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
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Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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