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Erica Jong - From the Advice category:
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. (Erica Jong)
Erica Jong - From the Advice category:
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it. (Erica Jong)
Erica Jong - From the Artists category:
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. (Erica Jong)
Erica Jong - From the Failure category:
There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. (Erica Jong)
Erica Jong - From the Fame category:
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are. (Erica Jong)
Erica Jong - From the Fear category:
I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back... (Erica Jong)
Erica Jong - From the Friendship category:
Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends. (Erica Jong)
Erica Jong - From the Gender category:
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. (Erica Jong)
Erica Jong - From the Gender category:
Men and women, women and men. It will never work. (Erica Jong)
Erica Jong - From the Jealousy category:
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. (Erica Jong)
Erica Jong - From the Mirrors category:
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone. (Erica Jong)
Erica Jong - From the Responsibility category:
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. (Erica Jong)
Erica Jong - From the Rhythm category:
Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own. (Erica Jong)
Erica Jong - From the Risk category:
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. (Erica Jong)
Erica Jong - From the Survival category:
Surviving means being born over and over again. (Erica Jong)
Erica Jong - From the Talent category:
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads. (Erica Jong)
Erica Jong - From the Wisdom category:
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. (Erica Jong)
Erica Jong - From the Writing category:
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)
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