Quotes by Erica Jong

About Erica Jong:

Erica Jong is an American author and teacher best known for her fiction and poetry, and particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying. The book became famously controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. According to Washington Post, it has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.
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Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.

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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

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The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.

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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

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I remember everything but forgive anyway.

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I've never been able to control my public image.

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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.

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At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford ...

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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juice...

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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.

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I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....

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Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.

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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.

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When women have so absorbed the disease of sexism that they themselves can inflict it on each other, we clearly have a perfect, self-replenishing machine for the continuation of sexism. Unable to turn our assertiveness against men, we turn it against...

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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

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Every woman artist has to kill her own grandmother. She perches on our shoulder whispering, "Don't embarrass the family.

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Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.

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Author Bio

  • NameErica Jong
  • DescriptionNovelist, poet, memoirist, critic
  • BornMarch 26, 1942
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Poet; Novelist
  • WorksFear Of Flying