Erica Jong Quotes
born 1942 United States
Erica Jong (born 26 March 1942) is an American author and educator. Born in New York City, Jong graduated from Barnard College in 1963.
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Also known as: Jong, Erica, Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected, Fear of Flying, How to Save Your Own Life
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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
Fear of Flying (1973)
Without sex it would be so easy to choose appropriate people to live with. Sex was the joker in an otherwise rational deck.
Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life.
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
Fear of Flying (1973)
How could one create life with someone who represented death?
Loving someone is a loss of freedom -- but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
Every poem, every page of fiction I have written, has been written with anxiety, occasionally panic, always uncertainty about its reception.
All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
Inevitably, I drank too much, talked too much, smiled too hard, swallowed back too much bile.
The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.
The ultimate sexist put-down: the prick which lies down on the job.
Fear of Flying (1973)
The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.
Having a baby with him meant marrying that face forever.
Get the reader to turn the page. Why? Because if the reader doesn't turn the page, the reader will never know what you need to tell that reader.
Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)