Erica Jong: Trending quotes (page 3)

“I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps. We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves!”

“Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.”

“I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.”

“Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.”

“They all cheat sooner or later. You might as well have one who isn't a bore the rest of the time.”

“If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.”

“Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.”

“All people believe their suffering is greater than others.”

“…the ocean kept falling into itself, gathering itself up, and falling into itself again.”

“Betrayal does that -- betrays the betrayer.”

“Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love…”

“Photographs… are the most curious indicators of reality.”

“Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life.”

“It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.”

“It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.”

“The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.”

“Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.”

“Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.”

“Loving someone is a loss of freedom -- but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.”