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Erica Jong Quotes - Page 5

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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

Mirrors, Air, Cities

I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.

Sex, Thinking, Intimacy

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

A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

Reading, Book, Strikes

of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.

Fear, Future, Foolish

As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid - as if we'd disabled them utterly. Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?

Men, Littles, Speak

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

In loving life you love what can't survive.

Loving Life

Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.120, Open Road Media

Solitude is un-American.

Solitude

1973 Fear of Flying, ch.1.

There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

Atheist, Airplane

FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Sep 28, 2012

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.

Names, Firsts, Revolutionary

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

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

Block, Past, Joy

FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 06, 2012

At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore.

Inspirational, Birthday, Fire

Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.15, Penguin

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

Book, Reading, Profound

Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.

Mom, Mother, Children

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.

Cheerful, Terrified, Envied

Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.233, Open Road Media

My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.

Sex, Home, Long

There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness - her selfishness, in short - is a reproach to the American way of life.

Peace, Men, Selfishness

Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.30, Open Road Media

There is this tendency to think that if you could only find the magic way, then you could become a poet. "Tell me how to become a poet. Tell me what to do." . . . What makes you a poet is a gift for language, an ability to see into the heart of things, and an ability to deal with important unconscious material. When all these things come together, you're a poet. But there isn't one little gimmick that makes you a poet. There isn't any formula for it.

Heart, Thinking, Magic

As a seasoned insomniac, I knew sometimes the way to beat sleeplessness was to outwit it: to pretend you didn't care about sleeping. Then sometimes sleep became piqued, like a rejected lover, and crept up to try to seduce you.

Sleep, Trying, Bed

Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.379, Open Road Media

If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.

Risk, Ifs

No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. 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. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Hate, Hands, People

It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.

Realizing, Forbidden

Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.245, Open Road Media

I remember everything but forgive anyway.

Remembers Everything, Forgiving, Remember

I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.

Rave, Forgotten, Vicious

FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 18, 2014

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

Marriage, People, Trying

Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.

Block, Writing, Inspire

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