Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
ERICA JONGI am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
More Erica Jong Quotes
-
-
A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
ERICA JONG -
The 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 JONG -
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
ERICA JONG -
People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
ERICA JONG -
If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
ERICA JONG -
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
ERICA JONG -
In loving life you love what can’t survive.
ERICA JONG -
Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
ERICA JONG -
The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
ERICA JONG -
I 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 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 -
I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
ERICA JONG -
If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONG -
Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
ERICA JONG -
You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
ERICA JONG






