Erica Jong

Erica Jong

"Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included."
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"Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included."
Erica Jong
"The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise."
Erica Jong
"Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?"
Erica Jong
"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for being brave for risking everything for. And the trouble is if you don't risk everything you risk even more."
Erica Jong
"Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads."
Erica Jong
"I was afraid to write Fear of Flying ergo I had to write it. I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it then I must do it."
Erica Jong
"The soul is awakened through service."
Erica Jong
"Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."
Erica Jong
"And the trouble is if you don't risk anything you risk even more."
Erica Jong
"I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am."
Erica Jong
"There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes."
Erica Jong
"Jealousy is all the fun you think they had."
Erica Jong
"If every day I dare to remember that I am here on loan that this house this hillside these minutes are all leased to me not given I will never despair."
Erica Jong
"I went for years not finishing anything. Because of course when you finish something you can be judged... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out."
Erica Jong
"Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same."
Erica Jong
"I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other being good to each other."
Erica Jong
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
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. ..."
Erica Jong
"It takes courage to lead a life. Any life."
Erica Jong
"Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads."
Erica Jong
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