Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.
Conversations with Erica Jong - Página 5, de Charlotte Templin, Erica Jong - publicado por Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2002, ISBN 1578065100, 9781578065103 - 207 páginas
Erica Jong Frases famosas
“E o problema é que, se você não arriscar nada, arriscará ainda mais.”
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
citado em "The World's Greatest Wacky One-Line Jokes" - página 95, de Bob Phillips, Harvest House Publishers, 2005, ISBN 0736914269, 9780736914260 - 124 páginas
Erica Jong: Frases em inglês
“…jealousy makes the prick grow harder. And the cunt wetter.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world…”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“The ultimate sexist put-down: the prick which lies down on the job.”
Erica Jong livro Fear of Flying
Fear of Flying (1973)
“I look forward and see myself look back.”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“Why does life need evidence of life?”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“…I am sure that when we love we are better than ourselves and when we hate, worse.”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry…”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“How could one create life with someone who represented death?”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“Hate generalizes; love is particular.”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“There is a rhythm to the ending…”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
"Into the lion's den" in The Guardian (26 October 2000) http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2000/oct/26/features11.g2
“Love is love, but marriage is an investment.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“In loving life you love what can't survive…”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“Keeping a journal implies hope.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
Erica Jong livro Fear of Flying
Fear of Flying (1973)
“Is perception equivalent to existence?”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“Having a baby with him meant marrying that face forever.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head… it's only a matter of degree.”
Erica Jong livro Fear of Flying
Fear of Flying (1973)
