In loving life you love what can’t survive.
ERICA JONGIn loving life you love what can’t survive.
ERICA JONGLoving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
ERICA JONGIn a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
ERICA JONGThe trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
ERICA JONGIf we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
ERICA JONGUnhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
ERICA JONGIf sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
ERICA JONGThe camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
ERICA JONGAs long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
ERICA JONGConflict is the soul of literature.
ERICA JONGA poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
ERICA JONGIt takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
ERICA JONGAs women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
ERICA JONGI have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
ERICA JONGEvery country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
ERICA JONGHow could one create life with someone who represented death?
ERICA JONG