Quotes by Erica Jong

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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  • 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.
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  • Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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  • To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.
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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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  • And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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  • Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.
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  • Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.
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  • 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 anything, you risk even more.
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  • Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.
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  • Everyone has a talent, what is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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  • Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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  • Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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  • German toilets are really the key to the horrors of the Third Reich. People who can build toilets like this are capable of anything.
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  • Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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  • He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
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  • 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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  • I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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  • If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
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  • In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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  • 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.
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What are the most famous quotes from Erica Jong?

The two most famous quotes from Erica Jong are:

  • "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."
  • "Jealousy is all the fun you think they had."

When did Erica Jong live?

Erica Jong was born in 1942.