Quotes by Jong, Erica




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"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."

Jong, Erica on advice
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"Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood."

Jong, Erica on entertainment
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"In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving."

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"Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared."

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"Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed."

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"Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God."

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"Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household."

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"Jealousy is all the fun you think they had..."

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"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

Jong, Erica on love
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"Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same."

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"There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier."

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"Men and women, women and men; it will never work."

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"Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends."

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"To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives."

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"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 (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all."

Jong, Erica on autonomy
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"The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

Jong, Erica on risk
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"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

Jong, Erica on risk
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"I can live without it all -- love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear."

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"Solitude is un-American."

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"Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame."

Jong, Erica on blame
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"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."

Jong, Erica on talent
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"Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!"

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"A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive."

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