A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
ERICA JONGEvery time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
More Erica Jong Quotes
-
-
Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
ERICA JONG -
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
ERICA JONG -
The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
ERICA JONG -
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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 -
The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
ERICA JONG -
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
ERICA JONG -
Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
ERICA JONG -
It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
ERICA JONG -
It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
ERICA JONG -
You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
ERICA JONG -
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
ERICA JONG -
If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
ERICA JONG -
Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
ERICA JONG -
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
ERICA JONG