Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
ERICA JONGI am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
More Erica Jong Quotes
-
-
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 -
Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
ERICA JONG -
I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
ERICA JONG -
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
ERICA JONG -
Is perception equivalent to existence?
ERICA JONG -
Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
ERICA JONG -
There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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 -
Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
ERICA JONG -
It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
ERICA JONG -
I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
ERICA JONG -
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
ERICA JONG -
Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
ERICA JONG -
I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
ERICA JONG -
Home is where your books are.
ERICA JONG