Quote

I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.

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
Saying
Anything
Love
Avoid

More quotes by 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
I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
Erica Jong
Image
Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
Erica Jong
Image
I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
Erica Jong
Image
I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
Erica Jong
Image
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica Jong
Image
Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
Erica Jong
Image
what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
Erica Jong
Image
Surviving means being born over and over.
Erica Jong
Image
Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.
Erica Jong
Image
Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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
There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
Erica Jong
Image
If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
Erica Jong
Image
Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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
I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
Erica Jong
Image
Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
Erica Jong
Image
As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
Erica Jong
Image
The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.
Erica Jong