Erica Jong Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

  Erica Jong

  Reality, Envy, Gossip

  Fear of Flying ch. 6 (1973)

• 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.

  Erica Jong

  Home, Writing, Reality

• Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.

  Erica Jong

  Reality, Photograph, Curious

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

• Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.

  Erica Jong

  Reality, Air, Venice

  Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.14, Open Road Media

• I think a lot of people, when they read about a woman who acknowledges her sexuality and her feelings, get really scared. They say they want to be fearless, but in reality they're terrified. If they acknowledge their deepest feelings, they might have to change their lives.

  Erica Jong

  Thinking, Reality, People

  "Erica Jong is back - as fearless as ever". Interview with Carole Burns, www.washingtonpost.com. September 08, 2015.

• We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.

  Erica Jong

  Sex, Reality, Perfect

  "Getting Intimate with Erica Jong". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

• I think we’re [men and women] more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.

  Erica Jong

  Reality, Fantasy, Sometimes

  "Getting Intimate with Erica Jong". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

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