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Erica Jong Quotes - Page 15

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The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Cat, Stones, Ghost

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

Inspiring, Mothers Day, Would Be

certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.

People, Funeral, Insane

Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.136, Open Road Media

Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.

Plot, Fancy, Way

Erica Jong (2007). “Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life”, p.235, Penguin

We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.

Writing, Oxygen, Giving

Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.

Dream, Self, Secret

Erica Jong (2013). “Sappho's Leap: A Novel”, p.383, Open Road Media

we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.

Hurt, Loss, Gains

Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.

Culture, World, Way

Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.97, Penguin

Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.

Simple, Actors, Television

I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.

Thinking, People, Machines

in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.

Dream, Men, Independence

People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look.

Hard Work, Land, People

Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.25, Open Road Media

Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

Writing, Cynical, Truth Is

Erica Jong (1999). “What Do Women Want?: Bread, Roses, Sex, Power”, Perennial

Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.

Strong, Genius, Aphrodisiac

Erica Jong (2007). “Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life”, p.41, Penguin

The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

Men, Hypocrisy, Ems

Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.

Thinking, Generations, Lost

Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.13, Penguin

It was the old psychosomatic side-step. Everyone in my family dances it at every opportunity. You've given me a splitting headache! You've given me indigestion! You've given me crotch rot! You've given me auditory hallucinations! You've given me a heart attack! You've given me cancer!

Family, Cancer, Heart

Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.74, Open Road Media

fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.

People, Misunderstood, Facts

Erica Jong (1998). “Inventing Memory: A Novel of Mothers and Daughters”, Harpercollins

There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

Writing, Class, Feelings

What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.

Love And Death, Paradox, Love Poetry

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.

Thinking, Ideas, Flying

Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.

Mean, Pockets, Want

The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.

Passion, Soul, Belief

Erica Jong (1981). “Fanny”

The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.

Fun, Men, Perfect

Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.

Book, Hands, People

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

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