Erica Mann Jong Quotes


27 Erica Mann Jong quotes:



"Since flesh can't stay, We pass the words along"
Author: Jong Quotes Category: Words Quotes
"There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness -- her selfishness, in short -- is a reproach to the American way of life."
Author: Jong Quotes Category: Women Quotes
"Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!"
Author: Jong Quotes Category: Women Quotes
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."
Author: Jong Quotes Category: Talent Quotes
"Solitude is un-American."
Author: Jong Quotes Category: Solitude Quotes
"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
Author: Jong Quotes Category: Risk Quotes
"The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
Author: Jong Quotes Category: Risk Quotes
"Men and women, women and men, It will never work."
Author: Jong Quotes Category: Relationships Quotes
"Men and women, women and men; it will never work."
Author: Jong Quotes Category: Men And Women Quotes
"Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same."
Author: Jong Quotes Category: Marriage Quotes
"If you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
Author: Jong Quotes Category: Inspirational Quotes
"Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness."
Author: Jong Quotes Category: History Quotes
"Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed."
Author: Jong Quotes Category: Gossip Quotes
"Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed"
Author: Jong Quotes Category: Gossip Quotes
"Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared."
Author: Jong Quotes Category: Gossip Quotes
"Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God."
Author: Jong Quotes Category: God Quotes Hollywood Quotes
"I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change.... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back."
Author: Jong Quotes Category: Fear Quotes
"I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as part of life specifically fear of change and fear of the unknown;and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says, turn back, turn back,you'll die if you venture too far."
Author: Jong Quotes Category: Fear Quotes
"Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are."
Author: Jong Quotes Category: Fame Quotes
"Jealousy is all the fun you think they had."
Author: Jong Quotes Category: Envy Quotes



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