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Erica Jong
Erica Jong
American Novelist
Born: Mar 26, 1942
Life Love People Think Women You
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong
Courage Dark Rare Everyone Dark Place Follow Leads Talent Where Place
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. Erica Jong
You Woman Women Smart See Guy Guys Dumb Lot Ever Hardly
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. Erica Jong
Me You Man Woman Guilty Feel Show Who
The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. Erica Jong
You Trouble Risk More Anything Even
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. Erica Jong
Wish Advice Know Answer Ask
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave. Erica Jong
Love Death Beginning Those Paradox About Only Poetry How Sources Eros Subjects
Solitude is un-American. Erica Jong
Alone Solitude Un-American
I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion. That reaches out to motherhood for completion. Erica Jong
Passion Motherhood Think Completion Ourselves Out Part Expresses Orphaned
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. Erica Jong
Life Blame Own Take No-One Terrible Terrible Thing Hands Happens Your Thing
I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers. Erica Jong
Writers Rave Like Most Reviews Forgotten Vicious
All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. Erica Jong
Mother Living Too Aunt Grandfather Worked Painted Portraits
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared. Erica Jong
Truth Women Gossip Men Detested Taken Because Always Suspect Being Measurements Compared
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
Writing Style Think Way Invented Write Writing Style Calculated Am Who Expresses
I've never been able to control my public image. Erica Jong
Control Able Never Been Public Public Image Image
The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world. Erica Jong
Women Writing Problem World Political Feminism Think Wave Enter Ourselves Mentoring Political Process Did Movement The Problem With Process Younger Much Next Helping Fought Among Second Damage Third
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it. Erica Jong
Sometimes Superior Advice Give Take He Him Who
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more. Erica Jong
You Risk More Anything Even
Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own. Erica Jong
Wonderful Dance Own Ambivalence Tune Rhythm
Men and women, women and men. It will never work. Erica Jong
Work Women Will Men Men And Women Never Women And Men
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. Erica Jong
Sense Earth Perhaps Household Housewives Were Artists
I remember everything but forgive anyway. Erica Jong
Remember Everything Forgive Anyway
It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously. Erica Jong
Simultaneously Nonfiction Fiction Hard
Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan. Erica Jong
People Speak School Word Language Think Our Reciting Our Lives Scares Poetry School Teachers Most Ecstatic Terrifying Passages Very Grade Grade School Teachers Lives
I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook. Erica Jong
Mother Daughter Cook
Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society. Erica Jong
Women Sex Society Equal Women Are Richer
At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55. Erica Jong
Seen Took States Responsibilities Able Retire Bouncing Over Still Cultures Historic Afford Beijing Chinese Certain Grandparents Who Many Moments United United States
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