Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
ERICA JONGGossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
ERICA JONGFreedom 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 JONGTake your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
ERICA JONGThe trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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 JONGUnhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
ERICA JONGFame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
ERICA JONGHow wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
ERICA JONGI do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
ERICA JONGTo name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
ERICA JONGThe only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
ERICA JONGDriving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
ERICA JONGThe sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
ERICA JONGSolitude is un-American.
ERICA JONGOf all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
ERICA JONGLife is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
ERICA JONG