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Erica Jong Quotes - Page 3

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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

Night, Stories, Literature

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

Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.

Loss, Thinking, Loving Someone

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

Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.

Erica Jong (2013). “The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller”, p.291, Open Road Media

It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.

Adventure

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.

Marriage, Rhythm, Courtship

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

If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.

Needs, Made, Gift From God

Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.228, Penguin

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates (470-399 B.C.) "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't

Wife, Advice, Wish

1977 How To SaveYour Own Life.

A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.

Dog, Heart, Pet Loss

Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?

Shoes, Want, Remember

Art is always an energy exchange.

Art, Energy, Art Is

Erica Jong (1994). “The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller”, p.7, Grove Press

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

Love, Pain, Joy

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

You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare

Writing, Knowing, Beginners

The sexuality doesn't end. It really doesn't. You're sexual your whole life, if you're a sexual person.

Sexuality, Ends, Whole Life

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

What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.

Country, Believe, Long Ago

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

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Artist, Earth, Housewife

Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.

Sex, Women, Color

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

We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.

Spiritual, Order, Human Experience

Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Men, Worst Enemy, Self

erica jong “fear of flying”

It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.

Mean, Circles, Getting Older

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

Women, Equality, Sisterhood

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

Forever, Blame Someone, May

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

People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.

Attitude, Thinking, Ideas

Why does life need evidence of life?

Doe, Needs, Evidence

Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.164, Open Road Media

The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.

Photography, Cameras, Narrative

Erica Jong (2007). “Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life”, p.176, Penguin

I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they've always reflected it in their art. End of story.

Art, People, Doe

"Free-Associating with Erica Jong". Interview with Robin Epstain. Lilith magazine, www.lilith.org. Fall 1995.

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