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Erica Jong is a renowned American author, born on March 26, 1942. Her works, focusing on female perspectives and sexual liberation, have gained widespread popularity. Her representative works include 'How to Be a Woman'.

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“Rendall's first law of jealousy: jealousy does the cock harder and pussy wetter.”

Book:how to save your own life

Source: how to save your own life

“Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.”

Sex Creativity Activity Dictator Subversive

Author:Erica Jong

“Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.”

Soul Sex Colour

Book:Fanny

Source: Fanny

“Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.”

People World Two Sometimes Sex Flying Indifferent Disadvantages One Friend That One Friend Coupling

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“Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.”

Writing Turns Sex

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“Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.”

Sex Absurd Transcendence

Book:Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

Source: Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

“Sex is God's joke on the human race ... if we didn't have sex to make us ridiculous, She would have had to think up something else instead.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Sex Race Jokes Ridiculous Human Race

Book:Parachutes & kisses

Source: Parachutes & kisses

“Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes.”

Men Sex Independent Endure Arrogance Alliances Nurturing

Book:What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong

Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong

“Most sex is not really intimate.”

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“Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.”

Humans Sex Human Beings Mystery Remains Intimate Good Sex

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“Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.”

People Thinking Together Certain Sex Levels Connections

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“I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.”

Thinking Sex Produce Intimacy

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“That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.”

Would Be Sex Mistake Generations Intimate My Generation Having Sex

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“Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.”

Sex Depends Intimacy True Intimacy

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“Sex just as a drive, as a hormonal drive, is not very interesting.”

Sex Interesting Very Interesting

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“We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.”

Reality Sex Perfect Fantasy

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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.”

Thinking Sex Cynical Epiphany

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“I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.”

Sex Conservative

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“I was surprised by my daughter's generation and how they were rebelling against the '70s idea that sex was perfect and it should be sought.”

Should Ideas Sex Perfect Generations Daughter My Daughter

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“Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.”

Form Sex Disappear

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“Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians and easy lays. They are gluttons for sweets and savories. They devour life and always want more. They have sap, spirit, sex. Books are panderers. The Jews are not wrong to worship books. A real book has pheromones and sprouts grass through its cover.”

Ifs Want Book Real Spirit Sex Easy Sweet Paper Worship Lays Jew Innocent Grass Strings Ink Glue Rogues Sap Sprouts Assemblage Real Books Ruffian Pheromones

Book:Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

Source: Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

“Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.”

Author:Erica Jong

“My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.”

Want Firsts Long Home Film Sex Minutes Ten Twenties Reactions Screws Pornography Funny Sex

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“Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.”

Sex Women Color Tvs Someday

Book:how to save your own life

Source: how to save your own life

“I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.”

Men Love I Can Sex Blood Ears Hunger Tongue Silly Wet Messy Baggage Pumps Peacock Strutting

Book:Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected

Source: Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected

“Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.”

Ifs Giving Made Sex Five Pieces Air Feet Giving Up Mouths Hundred Leaving Made It Planes Pockets Aviation Stomach Airline One Piece Air Travel

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“If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.”

Ifs Body Sex Voice Creativity Activity Insight Revolutionary Dictator Rebellious Subversive

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“Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.”

People Mean Passion Sex Pleasure Break Boundaries Breaking Down

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Born: March 26, 1942
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