Quotes by Erica Jong

Erica Jong

Erica Jong

American author

Lived from: 1942 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 26 march 1942

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  • Men and women, women and men; it will never work.
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  • Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
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  • Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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  • Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
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  • Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame.
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  • The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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  • There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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  • There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship - only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.
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  • There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
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  • Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
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  • Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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  • You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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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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