Quotes by Erica Jong with advice

Erica Jong

Erica Jong

American author

Lived from: 1942 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 26 march 1942

  • In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love.
  • Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
  • Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.
  • Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.
  • Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame.
  • I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.
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  • Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
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  • He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
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  • Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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