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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.

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
Disappear
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Changes
Sex
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Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.
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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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