Frases de Erica Jong página 3

“La verdad es que las fantasías, fantasías son y una no puede vivir extasiada todos los días del año. Incluso si das un portazo y te largas, incluso si jodes con todo el mundo a la vista, no te acercas más a la libertad necesariamente.”

Fear of Flying

“Ir completamente sobria a una fiesta es algo nuevo para mí; nuevo y atemorizador. Veo demasiado, siento demasiado, me doy demasiada cuenta de las mentiras.”

Fear of Flying

“Si eres una hembra y tenías talento, la vida resultaba una trampa, no importaba el camino que eligieras. O te sumergías en la vida doméstica (y tenías fantasías a lo Walter Mitty para fugarte) o suspirabas por la vida doméstica en todo tu arte. Nunca podías escapar a la condición de hembra. El conflicto estaba escrito en tu mismísima sangre."
Miedo a volar”

Any Woman's Blues

“Todos tenemos talento. Lo que es raro es el coraje de seguirlo a los lugares oscuros a donde conduce.”

Fear of Flying

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“Pero ¿qué hay del amor?, preguntaréis. ¿Dónde está el amor en esta ecuación? Sé que él me amaba apasionadamente. Me amaba como el cuchillo ama a la herida que hace, como la tarántula hembra ama al macho cuya cabeza engulle, como el lactante ama el pezón que toma entre los dientes y mordisquea hasta que chorrea sangre con la leche.
No tenía intención de ser cruel. Era sencillamente su naturaleza, como la del escorpión que pica al caballo sobre el que cruza el riachuelo.”

“Y el problema es que si no arriesgas nada, arriesgas aún más.”

Any Woman's Blues

“Todos los días son buenos, pienso, hasta los malos. Cada día es un don. El olor puede ser malo, pero habríamos de regocijarnos de tener nariz. Nadie nos prometió una nariz. Nadie nos prometió un jardín para la nariz.”

Fear of Flying

“He aceptado el miedo como parte de la vida, específicamente el miedo al cambio … He seguido adelante a pesar de los latidos en el corazón que dicen: vuelve atrás…”

Any Woman's Blues

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“…jealousy makes the prick grow harder. And the cunt wetter.”

Erica Jong: Frases en inglés

“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.”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

“I look forward and see myself look back.”

Erica Jong libro Fear of Flying

Fear of Flying (1973)

“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?”

Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)

“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.”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

“It is our old love I love.”

Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)

“Inevitably, I drank too much, talked too much, smiled too hard, swallowed back too much bile.”

Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)

“I only know that in our choice of friends and lovers and teachers who will change our lives, we are guided by forces which have nothing to do with the rationalizations we give.”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

“There is a rhythm to the ending…”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

“I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains.”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

“Love is love, but marriage is an investment.”

"Into the lion's den" in The Guardian (26 October 2000) http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2000/oct/26/features11.g2

“I'm very dependant. I fall apart regularly.”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

“In loving life you love what can't survive…”

Erica Jong libro Fear of Flying

Fear of Flying (1973)

“Keeping a journal implies hope.”

Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)

“Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

“The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.”

Erica Jong libro Fear of Flying

Fear of Flying (1973)

“Is perception equivalent to existence?”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

“Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

“Having a baby with him meant marrying that face forever.”

Erica Jong libro Fear of Flying

Fear of Flying (1973)

“Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head… it's only a matter of degree.”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

“What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to deceive?”

Erica Jong libro Fear of Flying

Fear of Flying (1973)

“Sheer bitchiness can be a sort of style.”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)