Quote

Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?

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
Analysts
Psychoanalysis
Answer
Question
Answers
Always

More quotes by Erica Jong

Image
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
Erica Jong
Image
We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
Erica Jong
Image
The soul is awakened through service.
Erica Jong
Image
Love gives without taking
Erica Jong
Image
Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
Erica Jong
Image
They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
Erica Jong
Image
Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
Erica Jong
Image
writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
Erica Jong
Image
But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
Erica Jong
Image
Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
Erica Jong
Image
Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
Erica Jong
Image
Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
Erica Jong
Image
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
Erica Jong
Image
Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
Erica Jong
Image
Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
Erica Jong
Image
Eating is never so simple as hunger.
Erica Jong
Image
Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
Erica Jong
Image
Conflict is the soul of literature.
Erica Jong
Image
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong
Image
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
Erica Jong