Erica Jong Famous Quotes
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.
Take your life in your own hands and what happens A terrible thing no one to blame.
"Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends."
Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't.
"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."
"I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life--specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far."
"I know some good marriages -- marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other."
If you don't risk anything you risk even more.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
"Love is everything it's cracked up to beIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for."
Erica Jong Quotations
"Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
Cicero
"Ok. Sex is fine. Sex is good. Sex is GREAT Okay, okay, we need men for sex... Do we need so many"
Sybil Adelman
"Beanie I have a wife and kids. Do I seem like a happy guy to you, Frank"
Old School
"The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion."
Blaise Pascal
"Wooderson That's what I like about these high school girls, I keep getting older, they stay the same age."
Dazed and Confused
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
E M Forster
We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.
John Ruskin
"The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it."
Mignon McLaughlin
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
Albert Camus