Erica Jong Quotes
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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I knew I was in England by the smell.
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She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.
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Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
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A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.
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Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
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You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.
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All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
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There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.
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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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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.
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Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.
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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.
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We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly...spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.- Susan Taylor--Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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