Quote

Anger is really disappointed hope.

Erica Jong

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Inspirational
Really
Disappointed
Anger
Hope

More quotes by Erica Jong

Image
When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
Erica Jong
Image
I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
Erica Jong
Image
As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
Erica Jong
Image
Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
Erica Jong
Image
I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
Erica Jong
Image
biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
Erica Jong
Image
Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
Erica Jong
Image
Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
Erica Jong
Image
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
Erica Jong
Image
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 to retire at 55.
Erica Jong
Image
Courage is the only Magic worth having.
Erica Jong
Image
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
Erica Jong
Image
I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
Erica Jong
Image
Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
Erica Jong
Image
How could one create life with someone who represented death?
Erica Jong
Image
Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
Erica Jong
Image
perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
Erica Jong
Image
People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.
Erica Jong
Image
Most sex is not really intimate.
Erica Jong
Image
Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
Erica Jong