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Erica Jong Quotes - Page 11

All Quotes Age Art Atheist Being Strong Birth Blame Censorship Children Country Courage Creativity Culture Divorce Dying Earth Eating Fame Fear Feelings Feminism Fighting Flying Funny Getting Older Giving Gossip Guilt Hate Heart Home House Hunger Hurt Husband Identity Inspirational Joy Language Life Literature Loss Love Magic Marriage Memories Morning Motherhood Pain Passion Past Reading Reality Responsibility Risk School Sexuality Silence Sleep Solitude Soul Survival Talent Teaching Waiting War Writing

A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

Book, Self, Censorship

Erica Jong (1994). “The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller”, p.36, Grove Press

My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.

Funny, Grandchildren, Fabulous

Being a daughter is only half the equation; bearing one is the other.

Daughter, Half, Equations

Erica Jong (1985). “Parachutes & kisses”, Signet

I tried to keep myself away from him by using con words like "fidelity" and "adultery", by telling myself that he would interfere with my work, that I had him I'd be too happy to write. I tried to tell myself I was hurting Bennett, hurting myself, making a spectacle of myself. I was. But nothing helped. I was possessed. The minute he walked into a room and smiled at me, I was a goner.

Hurt, Writing, Rooms

What makes a Man love Death, Fanny? Is it because he hopes to avert his own by watchin' the Deaths of others? Doth he hope to devour Death by devourin' Executions with his Eyes? I'll ne'er understand it, if I live to be eight hundred Years. The Human Beast is more Beast than Human, 'tis true.

Eye, Men, Eight

Erica Jong (1981). “Fanny”

Eating is never so simple as hunger.

Simple, Hunger, Eating

Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.107, Open Road Media

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

Teacher, School, Thinking

"Love Comes First" by Erica Jong, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2009.

is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

Jealousy, Envy, Tree

Erica Jong (1981). “Fanny”

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Women, Taken, Gossip

Charlotte Templin, Erica Jong (2002). “Conversations with Erica Jong”, p.45, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

Relationship, Women, Men

Fear of Flying ch. 16 (1973)

A man assumes that a woman's refusal is just part of a game. Or, at any rate, a lot of men assume that. When a man says no, it's no. When a woman says no, it's yes, or at least maybe. There is even a joke to that effect. And little by little, women begin to believe in this view of themselves.

Believe, Men, Views

erica jong “fear of flying”

It is the artists who make the true value of the world, though at times they may have to starve to do it. They are like earthworms, turning up the soil so things can grow, eating dirt so that the rest of us may eat green shoots.

Artist, Green, Dirt

Erica Jong (1988). “Serenissima”, Dell Publishing Company

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.

Miracle, Firsts, Poet

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

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.

Wisdom, Fool, Found

Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.

Flesh

Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.237, Open Road Media

You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.

Struggle, Fame

Erica Jong (1994). “Fear of Fifty: A Midlife Memoir”, HarperCollins Publishers

Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

Boredom, Flying, Fifty

Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.9, Penguin

art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

Art, Activism, Advocacy

Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.72, Penguin

When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.

Mother, Husband, Home

All people believe their suffering is greater than others.

Believe, People, Suffering

Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.

Sex, Creativity, Dictator

1972 'The Artist as Housewife', in The First Ms. Reader.

Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

Crazy, Ordinary World, People

FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 13, 2012

When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.

Writing, Thinking, Way

Charlotte Templin, Erica Jong (2002). “Conversations with Erica Jong”, p.130, Univ. Press of Mississippi

language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.

Language, Poet, Persons

erica jong (1977). “how to save your own life”

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.

Daughter, Mother, Dirty

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