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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
Sex
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Disappear
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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 have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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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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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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