Erica Jong Quotes
"No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Wisdom, Being, Fool, Fools, Public, Race, Rest, Writers)
"Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Artists, Earth, Sense)
"Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Man, Woman)
"Singularity shows something wrong in the mind."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Mind, Wrong)
"Solitude is un-American."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Solitude)
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Life, Blame)
"You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Life, Blame)
"The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Risk, Trouble)
"Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God."
- Erica Jong
(Related: God, American, Hollywood)
"Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness."
- Erica Jong
(Related: History, Women)
"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Women, Dumb, Woman)
"Men and women, women and men. It will never work."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Men, Women, Work, Will)
"Jealousy is all the fun you think they had."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Fun, Jealousy)
"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."
- Erica Jong
(Related: History, Cats, Disguise, Famous)
"Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Dance)
"Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Men, Women, Being, Gossip)
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Advice)
"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Risk, Trouble)
"Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Church, America, Country, Hollywood, Italy, Spain)
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Talent, Courage)
"Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are."
- Erica Jong
(Related: People, Idea, Fame, Wrong)
"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
(Related: Love, Successful, Fact, Friends, Misery, Pretty)
"He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Advice)
"I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Life, Change, Heart, Fear)
"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
(Related: Style, Writing)
"If you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Risk)
"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."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Marriage, Friends, May, Talking, Years)
"It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone."
- Erica Jong
"Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Gossip)