Erica Jong: Trending quotes (page 2)

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

“Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.”

“I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.”

“My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.”

“Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.”

“Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.”

“Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked.
With your own voice,' he said.”

“A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.”

“Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it…”

“Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.”

“Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.”

“There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.”

“…if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”

“Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.”

“You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare”

“the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they've always reflected it in their art. End of story.”