Erica Jong: Quotes about people

Erica Jong is Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic. Explore interesting quotes on people.

Erica Jong: 190 quotes14 likes

“Without sex it would be so easy to choose appropriate people to live with. Sex was the joker in an otherwise rational deck.”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

“Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartedness that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

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

“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.”

“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)