Erica Jong citáty a výroky
Erica Jong: Citáty v angličtine
“…if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
Varianta: ... if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong kniha Fear of Flying
Varianta: Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture... Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
Zdroj: Fear of Flying
Erica Jong kniha Fear of Flying
Zdroj: Fear of Flying
“Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.”
Erica Jong kniha Fear of Flying
Zdroj: Fear of Flying
“I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.”
Erica Jong kniha Fear of Flying
Fear of Flying (1973)
“Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.”
Erica Jong kniha Fear of Flying
About Men
Fear of Flying (1973)
“Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.”
Erica Jong kniha Fear of Flying
Fear of Flying (1973)
“All people believe their suffering is greater than others.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“…the ocean kept falling into itself, gathering itself up, and falling into itself again.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“Betrayal does that -- betrays the betrayer.”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love…”
Erica Jong kniha Fear of Flying
Fear of Flying (1973)
“Photographs… are the most curious indicators of reality.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
Erica Jong's father (a musician, songwriter and later business man), his two pieces of advice for her. Given in the Times Literary Supplement, 7 October 1994, page 44.
Other
“It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)