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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.

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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
Disappear
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Sex
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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
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If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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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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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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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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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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