People Quotes by Erica Jong

Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

— Erica Jong

Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

— Erica Jong

the only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.

— Erica Jong

Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.

— Erica Jong

People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look.

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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.

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Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.

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fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.

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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as…

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I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but…

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Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a…

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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that…

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Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares…

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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.

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In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn…

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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…

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No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone…

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[Henry Miller] was such a scribomaniac that even when he lived in the same house as Lawrence Durrell they often exchanged letters.…

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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful…

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I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't…

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Feminism is really the right of women to be full human beings and to not be defined only by their childbearing function.…

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You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your…

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I think a lot of people, when they read about a woman who acknowledges her sexuality and her feelings, get really scared.…

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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on…

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I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I…

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I didn't believe in systems. Everything human was imperfect and ultimately absurd. What did I believe in then? In humor. In laughing…

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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.

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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

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“Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need…

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What I discovered was is that it's rare to find a person that you feel very intimate with, and you can sleep…

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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.

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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it…

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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant,…

— Erica Jong

Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others.…

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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability,…

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I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good…

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People are terrified. A lot of them are in relationships that aren't satisfying, and if you tell them they can change their…

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Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.

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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons,…

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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional…

— Erica Jong