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Erica Jong Quotes - Page 10

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Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in

Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.

Eye, Evil, Joy

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.

Sex, Two, People

Fear of Flying ch. 10 (1973)

The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We simultaneously possess the most primitive of brain stems and the most sophisticated of cortices. The imperatives of each coexist uneasily.

War, Practice, People

Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.40, Penguin

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

Fiction, Fiction And Nonfiction, Nonfiction

"Oprah, Kitty and Me" by Erica Jong, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2010.

Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.

Law, Wings, Abortion

"Erica Jong on Feminism for the Future". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head of her art school that she was the best painter, but that she wouldn't get the biggest prize because she would waste her talent by having children. I think we have to get honest with girls about how they can expect the world to block them, and we have to prepare girls, and ourselves, to break through those blocks.

Girl, Mother, Art

"Erica Jong on Feminism for the Future". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.

Believe, People, Trying

Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.

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.

Sex, Mystery, Intimate

"Getting Intimate with Erica Jong". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

Most sex is not really intimate.

Sex, Intimate

"Getting Intimate with Erica Jong". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.

Glasses, Mirrors, Self

Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.7, Open Road Media

What I discovered was is that it's rare to find a person that you feel very intimate with, and you can sleep with lots of people and not find what you're looking for.

Sleep, People, Intimate

"Getting Intimate with Erica Jong". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.

Communication, Thinking, Evil

Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.86, Penguin

All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

Believe, Comforting, Might

Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.281, Open Road Media

There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh.

Vienna, Six, Married

FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 01, 2015

I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !

Memories, Black And White, Play

Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.153, Open Road Media

As women, we can't look old. We can't be fat. We're supposed to look like the 14-year-old models in Vogue, who are younger and younger and skinnier and skinnier, and they are air-brushed and contoured and Photoshopped.

Years, Air, Looks

"Erica Jong is back - as fearless as ever". Interview with Carole Burns, www.washingtonpost.com. September 8, 2015.

When you start having lunch and actually eating, it's already over.

Love, Lunch, Eating

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.

Kissing, Dust, Years

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.

Responsibility, Grandparent, Chinese

biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.

Art, Biographies, Biographers

Erica Jong (2013). “The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller”, p.65, Open Road Media

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.

Moving, Teaching, Writing

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

Faith, Heart, Mind

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.

Successful, Artist, Soul

Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.210, Open Road Media

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.

Moving, Careers, Dying

Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.59, Penguin

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.

Fate, Use, Calling

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