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Erica Jong Quotes about life
Source: How to Save Your Own Life
“Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it…”
Erica Jong book Fear of Flying
Source: Fear of Flying
Erica Jong Quotes about love
“I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.”
Erica Jong book Fear of Flying
Fear of Flying (1973)
“Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“…I am sure that when we love we are better than ourselves and when we hate, worse.”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
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“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't…”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
Erica Jong Quotes
“We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.”
Source: Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life
“Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked.
With your own voice,' he said.”
Source: Sappho's Leap
“…if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
Variant: ... if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong book Fear of Flying
Variant: Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture... Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
Source: Fear of Flying
“Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.”
Erica Jong book Fear of Flying
About Men
Fear of Flying (1973)
“They all cheat sooner or later. You might as well have one who isn't a bore the rest of the time.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.”
Erica Jong book Fear of Flying
Fear of Flying (1973)
“All people believe their suffering is greater than others.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“…the ocean kept falling into itself, gathering itself up, and falling into itself again.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“Betrayal does that -- betrays the betrayer.”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love…”
Erica Jong book Fear of Flying
Fear of Flying (1973)
“Photographs… are the most curious indicators of reality.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
Erica Jong's father (a musician, songwriter and later business man), his two pieces of advice for her. Given in the Times Literary Supplement, 7 October 1994, page 44.
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“The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“…jealousy makes the prick grow harder. And the cunt wetter.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world…”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“The ultimate sexist put-down: the prick which lies down on the job.”
Erica Jong book Fear of Flying
Fear of Flying (1973)
“I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry…”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“How could one create life with someone who represented death?”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
