It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
ERICA JONGEveryone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
More Erica Jong Quotes
-
-
Courage is the only Magic worth having.
ERICA JONG -
They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
ERICA JONG -
Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
ERICA JONG -
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
ERICA JONG -
In loving life you love what can’t survive.
ERICA JONG -
How could one create life with someone who represented death?
ERICA JONG -
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
ERICA JONG -
I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
ERICA JONG -
If 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 JONG -
Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
ERICA JONG -
A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
ERICA JONG -
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
ERICA JONG -
You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
ERICA JONG -
Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
ERICA JONG -
If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
ERICA JONG -
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.
ERICA JONG -
I look forward and see myself look back.
ERICA JONG -
It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONG -
There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
ERICA JONG -
Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
ERICA JONG -
It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
ERICA JONG -
The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
ERICA JONG -
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
ERICA JONG -
Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
ERICA JONG -
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
ERICA JONG -
Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
ERICA JONG