top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Lifestyle quotes
"Living simply makes loving simple."
"Mid-afternoon, I'll go out and do the household errands, come home, do my gardening, go for an evening walk."
"She's a gypsy girl living in a materialistic world, Unattached to most things but in love with life itself."
"If we are aware of our lifestyle, our way of consuming, of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment we are alive."
"My passionate leisure pursuit are reading, wondering and writing."
"Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence."
"Food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfection."
"An indoor man eats nothing, except that which is prepared and served by his mother with lots of insults, an outdoor man eats that which he buys, prepares, served and eaten with lots of respect."
Explore more quotes by Erica Jong
"I went for years not finishing anything. Because of course when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out."
"You're afraid of criticism,' she says. 'But criticism is a sign of life! You know who doesn't get criticized? Nonentities! Only the dead escape criticism."
"Fame turns out to be a powerful instrument of grace because it humbles its chosen victims in a hurry. You sail into it, your canvas swelled with grandiosity, and when your fifteen minutes are over and you are becalmed, you realize that grandiosity cannot take you where you need to go.Only then do you learn to row like hell, asking God for the strength to stay afloat."
"I had forgotten how awful it was to be a woman alone--the leering glances, the catcalls, the offers of help which you dared not accept for fear of incurring a sexual debt. The awful sense of vulnerability. No wonder I had gone from man to man and always wound up married. How could I have left Bennett? How could I have forgotten?"
"Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper."
"Husband and wife have no time left to spend together. Marriage took away our one reason for getting married."
"Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart."
"In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving."
bottom of page