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Erica Jong Quotes - Page 6

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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.

It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.

Pain, Writing, Joy

FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 25, 2012

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly...spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.- Susan Taylor--Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.

Dark, Opportunity, Order

The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.

Law, Momentum, Firsts

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

Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.

Discipline, Edits

Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.

Body, Lessons, Flesh

Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.153, Penguin

I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.

Hate, Thinking, Warfare

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

Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?

Jobs, Parent, Different

Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.

Sex, Giving Up, Air

I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow.

Believe, Writing, Flow

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

Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."

Thinking, Trying, Should

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.

Funny, Love You, Sarcasm

Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.406, Open Road Media

Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.

Goodbye, Farewell, Over You

Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.38, Open Road Media

Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.

Baby, Falling In Love, Emotional

"Love Comes First" by Erica Jong, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2009.

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.

Sex, Creativity, Voice

FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 28, 2015

Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.

Sex, Soul, Colour

Erica Jong (1981). “Fanny”

In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.

Passion, Divorce, Motherhood

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

If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don't know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Risk, Where You Are, Knows

You can't be creative and still be a good girl.

Girl, Creative, Stills

Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.

Writing, Thinking, Expression

FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Mar 01, 2016

I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.

Believe, Reading, People

Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.

Giving, Fixing, Way

FaceBook post by Erica Jong from May 02, 2016

I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains.

Prayer, War, Hate

"Into the Lion's Den". www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2000.

We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.

Sex, Reality, Perfect

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

beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Façade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.

Beauty, Men, House

I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.

Dark, Ecstasy, Poetry Is

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

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