Erica Jong Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Erica Jong Quotes and Sayings


  • 1
    Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 2
    Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 3
    And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 4
    Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 5
    Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 6
    Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 7
    Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 8
    Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 9
    He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 10
    I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 11
    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. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 12
    If you don't risk anything, you risk even more. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 13
    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. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 14
    It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 15
    Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 16
    Men and women, women and men. It will never work. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 17
    Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 18
    No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 19
    Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 20
    Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 21
    Singularity shows something wrong in the mind. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 22
    Solitude is un-American. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 23
    Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 24
    The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 25
    The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 26
    There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 27
    Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 28
    Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 29
    You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF
  • 30
    You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. Erica Jong | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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