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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.

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
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Unappeasable
Body
Feminism
Make
Male
Life
Feminist
Males
Bodies
Hunger
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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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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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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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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
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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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