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 More Quotes by Erica Jong More Quotes From Erica Jong Love is everything it's cracked up to be Erica Jong cracked love-is love Solitude is un-American. Erica Jong solitude Generations of women have sacrificed their lives to become their mothers. But we do not have that luxury any more. The world has changed too much to let us have the lives our mothers had. And we can no longer afford the guilt we feel at not being our mothers. We cannot afford any guilt that pulls us back to the past. We have to grow up, whether we want to or not. We have to stop blaming men and mothers and seize every second of our lives with passion. We can no longer afford to waste our creativity. We cannot afford spiritual laziness. Erica Jong daughter spiritual mother I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy. Erica Jong intimacy sex thinking When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love. Erica Jong kissing dust years biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier. Erica Jong biographers biographies art I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow. Erica Jong flow writing believe ... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death? Erica Jong great-poetry after-death voice One writes not by will but by surrender. Erica Jong surrender writing If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move. Erica Jong careers dying moving As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid - as if we'd disabled them utterly. Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk? Erica Jong speak littles men 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. Erica Jong fate use calling It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks. Erica Jong getting-older circles mean It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself. Erica Jong force important way 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. Erica Jong silly love sex Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life. Erica Jong abdication growing pregnancy We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion. Erica Jong monogamy cynical morality Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator. Erica Jong buttons pockets making-love A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother-how reading goes out the window and thinking too. Erica Jong mother baby jobs Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline. Erica Jong edits discipline
