Erica Jong Quotes
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I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on.
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I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates (470-399 B.C.) "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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Beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Façade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.
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My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.
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We all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.
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I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Sex just as a drive, as a hormonal drive, is not very interesting.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.
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Hate generalizes; love is particular.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
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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.
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.
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You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.