Erica Jong Quotes

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

Women, Smart, Woman

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Erica Jong

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
Erica Jong

Gossip, Oppressed, Opiate

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

Courage, Dark, Place

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica Jong

Life, Blame, Happens

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

Life, Change, Fear

My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
Erica Jong

Funny, Fabulous

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

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
Erica Jong

Equality, Women, History

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

Wish, Advice, Ask

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
Erica Jong

Woman, Guilty, Show

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
Erica Jong

Country, America, Church

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
Erica Jong

Women, Work, Men

I remember everything but forgive anyway.
Erica Jong

Remember, Forgive, Anyway

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica Jong

Life, Blame, Happens

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
Erica Jong

Best, Sleep, Human

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.
Erica Jong

Love, Successful, Friends

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
Erica Jong

Dance, Wonderful, Rhythm

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

Wrong, Idea, Means

I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
Erica Jong

Mother, Daughter, Cook

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

Forgotten, Writers, Vicious

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
Erica Jong

Writing, Write, Style

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

Once, City, Air

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
Erica Jong

Wisdom, Fool, Human

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: March 26, 1942

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