KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Erica Jong Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Erica Jong

Showing 1-10 of 78 Quotes by Erica Jong

I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Get Important Means Paid Professionalism Think You I Think

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Air City Liquid Mirrors Once Solid Stone

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Forgotten Like Most Rave Reviews Vicious Writers

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Always Been Believe Choose Difficult Express Intellect Intellectually Live Love Motherhood Passionately Should Themselves Women I Believe I Believe That

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Mind Shows Singularity Something Wrong

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Dumb Ever Guy Guys Hardly Lot See Smart Woman Women You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Accepted Back Change Despite Fear Gone Heart Life Part Pounding Says Specifically Turn Ahead

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Cats Dash Dead Disguise Famous Ghosts History Must Stones Surely Themselves Thick Those Through

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Always Anything Anything Else Else Ever Feminism Gifts Judged Means Meant Talents Them Think Use Want Women I Think

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

~Erica Jong

Topics: Courage Dark Dark Place Everyone Follow Leads Place Rare Talent Where

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: March 26th, 1942

Links

Find Erica Jong on Amazon

Related Authors

Richard Bach
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ernest Hemingway
Jack Kerouac
H. P. Lovecraft
Chuck Palahniuk
Gore Vidal
Elie Wiesel

Popular Authors

Coco Chanel Fyodor Dostoevsky Aretha Franklin Aldous Huxley Matthew Mcconaughey P. J. O'Rourke Frank Sinatra George Washington

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1806 - Isambard K. Brunel

1821 - Charles Baudelaire

1865 - Adela Florence Nicolson

1872 - Leon Blum

1888 - Sol Hurok

1893 - Charles Simmons

1898 - Paul Robeson

1905 - J. William Fulbright

1906 - Victor Vasarely

1910 - Abraham A. Ribicoff

Birthdays on April 9th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Beauty Christmas Fitness Intelligence Memorial Day Mom Morning Poetry