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Erica Jong Quotes - Page 7

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I think we’re [men and women] more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.

I think we’re [men and women] more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.

Reality, Fantasy, Sometimes

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

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.

Pregnancy, Growing, Abdication

Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.65, Open Road Media

[Henry Miller] was such a scribomaniac that even when he lived in the same house as Lawrence Durrell they often exchanged letters. For most of his life, Henry wrote literally dozens of letters a day to people he could have easily engaged in conversation - and did. The writing process, in short, was essential. As it is to all real writers, writing was life and breath to him. He put out words as a tree puts out leaves.

Real, Writing, People

All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.

Book, Fall, Reading

Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.235, Penguin

I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.

Thinking, Self, Vegetables

Erica Jong (1991). “Becoming light: poems, new and selected”, HarperCollins Publishers

Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.

Children, Women, May

Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.108, Penguin

The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.

Meditation, Solitude, Important

Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.

Crazy, Degrees, Littles

Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.338, Open Road Media

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

Baby, Sleep, Perfection

I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.

Writing, Years, Finishing

Love gives without taking

Sweet, Romantic Love, Giving

Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.20, Open Road Media

Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love.

Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.28, Open Road Media

In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.

Criticism, World, Made

Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.17, Penguin

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Friendship, Bad Relationship, Talking

Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.

Wings, Great Love, Legs

I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.

Writing, Glowing, Dust

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

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

Writing, Heart, Exercise

Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.

Writing, Each Day, Fragmented

Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?

Answers, Analysts, Psychoanalysis

Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.23, Open Road Media

Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

Mind, Adaptability, Shows

It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.

Play, Waiting, Despair

Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.387, Open Road Media

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

Writing, Thinking, Who I Am

The older we get, the more Jewish we become in my family.

My Family

Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.67, Penguin

As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?

Art, Media, Selling Things

Erica Jong (1994). “The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller”, p.4, Grove Press

I'm very dependant. I fall apart regularly.

Fall, Falling Apart

Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.186, Open Road Media

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