Erica Jong
"لكلٍ موهبة، لكن الشجاعة على تتبع تلك الموهبة إلى حيث تقود في الظلمات هي النادر."
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"Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads."
"لكلٍ موهبة، لكن الشجاعة على تتبع تلك الموهبة إلى حيث تقود في الظلمات هي النادر."
Erica Jong
"I have not ceased being fearful but I have ceased to let fear control me."
"لم أتوقف عن الخوف، لكنني توقفت عن السماح له بالتحكم بي."
Erica Jong
"I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back..."
"لقد احتضنتُ الخوف كجزءٍ لا يتجزأ من مسيرة الحياة، لا سيما رهبة التغيير. ومضيتُ في طريقي، متحديًا خفقان الفؤاد الذي يصرخ في أعماقي: تراجع!"
Erica Jong
"I have accepted fear as a part of life -specifically the fear of change ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ..."
"لقد احتضنت الخوف كجزء لا يتجزأ من مسيرة الحياة، تحديداً رهبة التغيير. مضيتُ في طريقي رغم رجفة الفؤاد التي تهمس: عد أدراجك."
Erica Jong
"Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are."
"الشهرة تعني أن ملايين البشر يحملون فكرة خاطئة عن حقيقتك."
Erica Jong
"she died of internal weeping"
"توفيت من بكاء داخلي."
Erica Jong
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t."
Erica Jong
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads."
Erica Jong
"When women have so absorbed the disease of sexism that they themselves can inflict it on each other, we clearly have a perfect, self-replenishing machine for the continuation of sexism. Unable to turn our assertiveness against men, we turn it against each other. Thus we remain stuck in the troubles we always had. It is imperative we renovate the machine -- no, not renovate it, but smash it entirely, so that we allow women to be all they need to be."
Erica Jong
"What all the ads and whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if only you took proper care of your smells, your har, your boobs, your eyelashes, your armpits, your crotch, your stars, your scars, and your choice of Scotch in bars - you would meet a beautiful, powerful, potent, and rich man who would satisfy every longing, fill every hole, make your heart skip a beat (or stand still), make you misty, and fly you to the moon (preferably on gossamer wings), where you would live totally satisfied forever."
Erica Jong
"I don't believe what you believe," I yelled, "and I don't respect your beliefs and I don't respect you for holding them. If you can honestly make a statement like that about the power behind the throne, how can you possibly understand anything about me or the things I'm struggling with? I don't want to live by the things you live by, I don't want that kind of life and I don't see why I should be judged by its standards."
Erica Jong
"I had forgotten how awful it was to be a woman alone--the leering glances, the catcalls, the offers of help which you dared not accept for fear of incurring a sexual debt. The awful sense of vulnerability. No wonder I had gone from man to man and always wound up married. How could I have left Bennett? How could I have forgotten?"
Erica Jong
"Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartedness that requires the true courage-however often we are hurt as a result of it."
Erica Jong
"Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads."
Erica Jong
"The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. 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
"Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world."
Erica Jong
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."
Erica Jong
"Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper."
Erica Jong
"Most people in this country are looking for literature that is useful. They feel that just exploring their feelings is good enough - they should be reading about leveraged buy-outs or how to get thin. We live in a culture that is so absolutely, madly focused on commercialism and on creating money and completely turned away from any other kind of creative value. People don't generally turn to poetry unless they're bereaved or have fallen in love. Or in adolescence, when their feelings are very strong and turbulent. I think most of us are dying for lack of spirit in this culture."
Erica Jong
"Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart."
Erica Jong
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