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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
Problem
Unappeasable
Body
Feminism
Make
Male
Life
Feminist
Males
Bodies
Hunger
Bigs

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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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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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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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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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