38 Quotations by Erica Jong
- 1. A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passiv ...

- 2. Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

- 3. Anger is really disappointed hope.

- 4. Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying ...

- 5. Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

- 6. Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. Th ...

- 7. Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. Am ...

- 8. Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talen ...

- 9. Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.

- 10. Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pre ...

- 11. Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

- 12. Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, lov ...

- 13. I can live without it all -- love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their pe ...

- 14. I have accepted fear as a part of life -- specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite ...

- 15. I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

- 16. I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a ...

- 17. I know some good marriages -- marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days ...

- 18. I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be ju ...

- 19. I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing s ...

- 20. If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead t ...

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