Quote

Love is everything it's cracked up to be

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
Cracked
Everything
Love

More quotes by Erica Jong

Image
I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
Erica Jong
Image
It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
Erica Jong
Image
The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.
Erica Jong
Image
Keeping a journal implies hope.
Erica Jong
Image
Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
Erica Jong
Image
Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
Erica Jong
Image
How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
Erica Jong
Image
The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
Erica Jong
Image
Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.
Erica Jong
Image
The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
Erica Jong
Image
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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
Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
Erica Jong
Image
In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
Erica Jong
Image
Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
Erica Jong
Image
In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.
Erica Jong
Image
I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
Erica Jong
Image
we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.
Erica Jong
Image
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Erica Jong
Image
A baby's mother also needs a mother.
Erica Jong