Erica Jong Quotes

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

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. Erica Jong

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

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

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

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world. Erica Jong

The AIDS plague has so fed into America’s current need to disown the sexual revolution that it has been hard to determine whether the new disease is just a convenient excuse or truly a new Black Death. Erica Jong

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

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