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Erica Jong Quotes - Page 14

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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.

When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.

Writing, Silence, Despair

I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.

Believe, Book, Lasts

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

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

Lasts, Firsts, Morality

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

Blaming women is always in fashion.

Fashion, Women, Blame

Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.

Memories, Humanity, Identity

Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.52, Penguin

I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.

Love Is, Kind, Not Sure

Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.166, Open Road Media

Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

Ifs

Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.

Faces, Rebound, Reactions

Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.57, Open Road Media

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.

Long Distance Relationship, Mountain, Bed

The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.

Writing, Thinking, Political

If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.

Firsts, Faults, Belief

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

I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.

Sadness, World, Way

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

the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.

Soul, Mind, Body

FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 27, 2012

You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.

Writing, Voice, Giving

At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

Knows, Powerlessness

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

Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.

Pain, Flower, Love Is

Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.20, Open Road Media

It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.

Writing, Thinking, Parting

Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.289, Open Road Media

It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.

Writing

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

If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.

Art, Expression, Diverse Society

Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.84, Penguin

The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.

Important, Study, Locked

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

In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself!

Infidelity, Unseen, Triangles

FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Sep 28, 2012

From Roman times to the present, Italy has been a country to fall in love with - a tribute to all that is enduring, crazy, pagan, joyous, melancholy, at once banal and divine, in the human spirit.

Country, Falling In Love, Crazy

Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.

Dream, Cities, Venice

Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.35, Open Road Media

Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.

Reality, Air, Venice

Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.14, Open Road Media

Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.

People, Want, Firsts

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