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Erica Jong Quotes - Page 4

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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.

What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.

Daughter, Freedom, Giving

Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.49, Penguin

Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.

Misery, Friend Love

"How to Save Your Own Life". Book by Erica Jong, 1977.

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

Book, Waiting, Shelves

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

Keeping a journal implies hope.

Journal, Keeping A Journal

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

Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.

Reality, Photograph, Curious

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

I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.

Believe, Motherhood, Should

"The Report From Baghdad and Pension Funding Troubles". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. June 27, 2003.

Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.

Stars, Memories, Possession

Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.59, Penguin

Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.

Sex, Intimacy, True Intimacy

"Getting Intimate with Erica Jong". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.

Book, Writing, Thinking

erica jong “fear of flying”

My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.

Daughter, Mother, Wings

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

I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.

Love You, Want, Say I Love You

Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.117, Open Road Media

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

Art, Children, Thinking

Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.62, Open Road Media

The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.

Daughter, Mother, Women

Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?

Soul, Earth, Orphan

Erica Jong (1981). “Fanny”

I hope we don't have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion. The parity of women's health. It's very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.

Depressing, Fighting, Winning

"Erica Jong on Feminism for the Future". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

Images are ... a kind of emotional shorthand.

Emotional, Kind, Shorthand

They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.

Thinking, Truck, Persons

It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.

Important, Way, Force

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

I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.

Cycle Of Life, Understanding, Getting Older

"Erica Jong is back - as fearless as ever". Interview with Carole Burns, www.washingtonpost.com. September 8, 2015.

Is perception equivalent to existence?

Perception, Existence

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

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

Divorce, Age, Generations

Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.165, Penguin

I look forward and see myself look back.

Looks

Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.99, Open Road Media

If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.

House, Despair, Remember

Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.231, Penguin

Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.

Funny, Witty, Past

How could one create life with someone who represented death?

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

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