Top 78 Quotes by Erica Jong

About Erica Jong

These are some quotes by American author Erica Jong Novelist, who was born on March 26, 1942.

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

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

Erica Jong

Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.

Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.

Erica Jong

I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity.

I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity.

Erica Jong

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.

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

Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

Erica Jong

Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

Erica Jong

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

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

Erica Jong

My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.

My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.

Erica Jong

I remember everything but forgive anyway.

I remember everything but forgive anyway.

Erica Jong

The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.

Erica Jong

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