Best Erica Jong Sayings
- Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true… Believe
- The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning. Believe
- The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study... Important
- As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world… Bereft
- She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying. All
- The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude. Education
- What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation. Freedom is a… Come Back
- I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation. Anger
- I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep… Better
- We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it. Calling
- A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart. Dog
- If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me,… All
- 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.… Always Deliberate
- Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline. Compose
- You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone. Anyone
- Women are individuals in parenting, and why not? Individual
- Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses. Cultivate
- I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the… Character
- If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs. Entangling
- If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body… Activities
- But come back in November or December, in February or March, when the fog, la nebbia, settles upon the city like a marvelous monster, and… Appear
- Women in America read 'lifestyle' pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us we must veil ourselves in make-up to be loved. And… America
- Surviving means being born over and over. Born
- What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation. Daughter
- Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the… Along
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