Quotes from Erica Jong
Beware the lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready assumption that the lovely façade must needs have lovely chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.
- Erica Jong
Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.
- Erica Jong
Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
- Erica Jong
The body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god's messenger.
- Erica Jong
If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
- Erica Jong
The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
- Erica Jong
Anger is really disappointed hope.
- Erica Jong
what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.
- Erica Jong
There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
- Erica Jong
The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.
- Erica Jong
Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
- Erica Jong
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
- Erica Jong