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Erica Jong quotes: Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion? Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
Erica Jong quotes: Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it. Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Erica Jong quotes: Whenever I go anywhere but Italy for a vacation, I always feel vaguely disappointed, as if I have made a mistake. Whenever I go anywhere but Italy for a vacation, I always feel vaguely disappointed, as if I have made a mistake.
Erica Jong quotes: People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look. People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look.
Erica Jong quotes: Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old. Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
Erica Jong quotes: Husband and wife have no time left to spend together. Marriage took away our one reason for getting married. Husband and wife have no time left to spend together. Marriage took away our one reason for getting married.
Erica Jong quotes: Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along. Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
Erica Jong quotes: What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve? What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
Erica Jong quotes: Men and women, women and men. It will never work. Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
Erica Jong quotes: I've not ceased being fearful, I've gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back, you'll die if you go too far. I've not ceased being fearful, I've gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back, you'll die if you go too far.
Erica Jong quotes: Souls have neither Sex nor Colour. Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
Erica Jong quotes: Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then. Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
Erica Jong quotes: Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared. Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
Erica Jong quotes: Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm. Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.
Erica Jong quotes: 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. 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.
Erica Jong quotes: The body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god's messenger. The body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god's messenger.
Erica Jong quotes: Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all. Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
Erica Jong quotes: The earth is God's book but in our blindness, we have obliterated letters so we may say God has abandoned us. It is we who are illiterate. The earth is God's book but in our blindness, we have obliterated letters so we may say God has abandoned us. It is we who are illiterate.
Erica Jong quotes: There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives. There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.
Erica Jong quotes: Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it. Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.
Erica Jong quotes: Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child. Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.
Erica Jong quotes: It takes a spasm of love to write a poem. It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.
Erica Jong quotes: Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood. Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
Erica Jong quotes: If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs. If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
Erica Jong quotes: Each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's. Each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.
Erica Jong quotes: These bits speak history's tattered tale. How we cling to scraps, shards, sea glass- because we cannot stay. These bits speak history's tattered tale. How we cling to scraps, shards, sea glass- because we cannot stay.
Erica Jong quotes: Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life. Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
Erica Jong quotes: Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan? Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
Erica Jong quotes: It takes courage to lead a life. Any life. It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
Erica Jong quotes: I love to go to sleep, when bed takes me like a lover I love to go to sleep, when bed takes me like a lover
Erica Jong quotes: It is heresy in America to embrace any way of life except as half of a couple. Solitude is un-American. It is heresy in America to embrace any way of life except as half of a couple. Solitude is un-American.
Erica Jong quotes: Is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'? Is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?
Erica Jong quotes: Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should." Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."
Erica Jong quotes: What is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death? What is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
Erica Jong quotes: Sex just as a drive, as a hormonal drive, is not very interesting. Sex just as a drive, as a hormonal drive, is not very interesting.
Erica Jong quotes: It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously. It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
Erica Jong quotes: Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Erica Jong quotes: Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind. Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
Erica Jong quotes: My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinemthen Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation. My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem
then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
Erica Jong quotes: Even now, we have laryngitis from screaming at each other: the dirty little secret of a durable marriage. Even now, we have laryngitis from screaming at each other: the dirty little secret of a durable marriage.
Erica Jong quotes: Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses. Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
Erica Jong quotes: A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match. A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
Erica Jong quotes: I discovered the secret of writing - live in the present moment. Do not fantasize about possible response because you cannot know the future. I discovered the secret of writing - live in the present moment. Do not fantasize about possible response because you cannot know the future.
Erica Jong quotes: Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
Erica Jong quotes: Readers who think I have answers when all I have are a few pointed questions ... Readers who think I have answers when all I have are a few pointed questions ...
Erica Jong quotes: Did I want to dance? Of course I did and that's not all. Did I want to dance? Of course I did and that's not all.
Erica Jong quotes: Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare. Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
Erica Jong quotes: Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough. Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
Erica Jong quotes: If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
Erica Jong quotes: Art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art. Art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.
Erica Jong quotes: I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man? I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
Erica Jong quotes: Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound. Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.
Erica Jong quotes: 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. 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.
Erica Jong quotes: If you don't risk anything, you risk more If you don't risk anything, you risk more
Erica Jong quotes: I was glowing with health and well-being, as a woman will glow when she's been fucked four times in one day by two different men, I was glowing with health and well-being, as a woman will glow when she's been fucked four times in one day by two different men,
Erica Jong quotes: Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography. Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.
Erica Jong quotes: I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets. I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
Erica Jong quotes: My grandchildren are fabulous and funny. My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
Erica Jong quotes: Images are ... a kind of emotional shorthand. Images are ... a kind of emotional shorthand.
Erica Jong quotes: I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing. I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
Erica Jong quotes: We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it. We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it.
Erica Jong quotes: Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline. Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
Erica Jong quotes: Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God. Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
Erica Jong quotes: Because I loved myself, I was loved. Because I loved myself, I was loved.
Erica Jong quotes: In freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself. In freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
Erica Jong quotes: Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are. Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
Erica Jong quotes: Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence. Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.
Erica Jong quotes: We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars. We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
Erica Jong quotes: The soul is awakened through service. The soul is awakened through service.
Erica Jong quotes: It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks. It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.
Erica Jong quotes: Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world. Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world.
Erica Jong quotes: Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily ... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself. Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily ... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
Erica Jong quotes: That's what a writer is -- a conqueror of fears. That's what a writer is -- a conqueror of fears.
Erica Jong quotes: Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it ... Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it ...
Erica Jong quotes: I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany. I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
Erica Jong quotes: I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world ... I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world ...
Erica Jong quotes: Biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier. Biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
Erica Jong quotes: Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life. Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.
Erica Jong quotes: Photographs ... are the most curious indicators of reality. Photographs ... are the most curious indicators of reality.
Erica Jong quotes: Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
Erica Jong quotes: A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
Erica Jong quotes: There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes. There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
Erica Jong quotes: We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate. We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
Erica Jong quotes: The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy. The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.
Erica Jong quotes: I remember everything but forgive anyway. I remember everything but forgive anyway.
Erica Jong quotes: This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away. This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
Erica Jong quotes: Art is always an energy exchange. Art is always an energy exchange.
Erica Jong quotes: Solitude is considered un-American. Solitude is considered un-American.
Erica Jong quotes: Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on. Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
Erica Jong quotes: Singularity shows something wrong in the mind. Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
Erica Jong quotes: Whoever pushes America's sex button must be prepared for sirens and alarms. Whatever else we do in our lives will be drowned out by them. Whoever pushes America's sex button must be prepared for sirens and alarms. Whatever else we do in our lives will be drowned out by them.
Erica Jong quotes: I'm very dependant. I fall apart regularly. I'm very dependant. I fall apart regularly.
Erica Jong quotes: The truth is: nobody bothers to kill poets in America. It's enough to buy them in universities. Undead. The truth is: nobody bothers to kill poets in America. It's enough to buy them in universities. Undead.
Erica Jong quotes: Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control. Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.
Erica Jong quotes: Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on! Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
Erica Jong quotes: The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more. The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
Erica Jong quotes: Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head ... it's only a matter of degree. Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head ... it's only a matter of degree.
Erica Jong quotes: Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities. Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.
Erica Jong quotes: Hate generalizes; love is particular. Hate generalizes; love is particular.
Erica Jong quotes: There's no shame in loving life above death. Otherwise I would be dead. What use would that be to the gods, who will not die themselves? There's no shame in loving life above death. Otherwise I would be dead. What use would that be to the gods, who will not die themselves?

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