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Erica Jong
American
Novelist
About the author
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.
Erica Jong,
American
Novelist
#Feeling
#Writing
#Knowledge
#Women
#Class
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,
American
Novelist
#Public
#Being
#Writers
#Rest
#Race
#Wisdom
#Fool
#Fools
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
Erica Jong,
American
Novelist
#Earth
#Sense
#Artists
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
Erica Jong,
American
Novelist
#Man
#Woman
Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
Erica Jong,
American
Novelist
#Wrong
#Mind
Solitude is un-American.
Erica Jong,
American
Novelist
#Solitude
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica Jong,
American
Novelist
#Life
#Blame
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica Jong,
American
Novelist
#Life
#Blame
The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong,
American
Novelist
#Trouble
#Risk
Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
Erica Jong,
American
Novelist
#God
#Hollywood
#American
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
Erica Jong,
American
Novelist
#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,
American
Novelist
#Dumb
#Woman
#Women
Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
Erica Jong,
American
Novelist
#Work
#Will
#Men
#Women
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Erica Jong,
American
Novelist
#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,
American
Novelist
#History
#Famous
#Cats
#Disguise
Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
Erica Jong,
American
Novelist
#Dance
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
Erica Jong,
American
Novelist
#Being
#Men
#Women
#Gossip
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Erica Jong,
American
Novelist
#Advice
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong,
American
Novelist
#Trouble
#Risk
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.
Erica Jong,
American
Novelist
#Hollywood
#Country
#America
#Church
#Italy
#Spain
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong,
American
Novelist
#Talent
#Courage
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
Erica Jong,
American
Novelist
#People
#Idea
#Wrong
#Fame
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,
American
Novelist
#Love
#Successful
#Friends
#Pretty
#Fact
#Misery
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
Erica Jong,
American
Novelist
#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,
American
Novelist
#Life
#Heart
#Fear
#Change
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,
American
Novelist
#Style
#Writing
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong,
American
Novelist
#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,
American
Novelist
#Years
#May
#Friends
#Talking
#Marriage
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
Erica Jong,
American
Novelist
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
Erica Jong,
American
Novelist
#Gossip