From Roman times to the present, Italy has been a country to fall in love with - a tribute to all that is enduring, crazy, pagan, joyous, melancholy, at once banal and divine, in the human spirit. Erica Jong More Quotes by Erica Jong More Quotes From Erica Jong what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress? Erica Jong minddressestime Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it. Erica Jong expectingtruth Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence. Erica Jong transcendenceabsurdsex Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life. Erica Jong turnswritingsex Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war. Erica Jong menwarbelieve You're not too fat; you're just in the wrong country. Erica Jong fatsweightcountry each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's. Erica Jong torncoatsfeels Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish? Erica Jong sharksfancythinking Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs. Erica Jong responsibilitywritingthinking Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness. Erica Jong our-societylastslaw In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself! Erica Jong trianglesunseeninfidelity in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself. Erica Jong independencedreammen A baby's mother also needs a mother. Erica Jong motherbabyneeds The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em. Erica Jong emshypocrisymen Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us. Erica Jong truth-iscynicalwriting People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look. Erica Jong hard-worklandpeople You can't be creative and still be a good girl. Erica Jong stillsgirlcreative Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented. Erica Jong fragmentedeach-daywriting If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most. Erica Jong gift-from-godmadeneeds Genius is a strong aphrodisiac. Erica Jong aphrodisiacgeniusstrong
