Quotes by Erica Jong
When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as part of life specifically fear of change and fear of the unknown;and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says, turn back, turn back,you'll die if you venture too far.
The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
Everyone has a talent, what is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
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.
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.
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
