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Erica Jong Quotes - Page 12

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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.

Husband, Names, Wife

FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 16, 2012

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

Parenting, Why Not, Individual

A wet dream in the mind of New York.

Dream, New York, California

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

Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid... They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild - and what happened? The men wilted.

Women, Pregnancy, Taken

"Fear of Flying". Book by Erica Jong, 1973.

I knew I was in England by the smell.

Smell, England

erica jong “fear of flying”

what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.

Secret, Doe, Bottles

Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.10, Open Road Media

Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.

Self, Doubters, Moments

Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.143, Penguin

Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.

Sex, Absurd, Transcendence

Erica Jong (2007). “Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life”, p.76, Penguin

Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world.

Spring, Cutting, World

It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.

Writing, Males, Fiction

I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.

Mean, Thinking, Feminism

each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.

Coats, Torn, Feels

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

Sex is God's joke on the human race ... if we didn't have sex to make us ridiculous, She would have had to think up something else instead.

Sex, Thinking, Race

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

Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.

Sex, Writing, Turns

FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Mar 14, 2013

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.

Voice, Silence, Guilt

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

A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

Soul, Remember, Makers

FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Aug 06, 2012

Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?

Phrases, Language, Menace

I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.

Daughter, Mother, My Daughter

it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not yet exist, they must also create their audience. Sometimes the audience is not yet ready. Sometimes it has yet to be born.

Hate, Sometimes, Unusual

Erica Jong (1994). “The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller”, p.32, Grove Press

What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.

Lonely, Writing, Order

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

writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.

Subjects

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

Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.

Writing, Responsibility, Thinking

Charlotte Templin, Erica Jong (2002). “Conversations with Erica Jong”, p.7, Univ. Press of Mississippi

The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.

Distance, Book, Writing

FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Sep 18, 2012

O what is it about having one's own Babe upon one's Hip that makes a Woman wish to go home to her Mother? A Desire to say: 'Look, the Circle is compleat'? A Desire to say: 'Look, I have cross'd the Divide and now am more like you'? A Desire to say: 'Look, this Babe I offer you is my most precious Gift'?

Mother, Home, Circles

Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.

People, Done, Experimentation

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