Erica Jong quotes and words of wisdom

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads."
Found in the topic Talent.

"Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness."
Found in the topic Power.

"Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."
Found in the topic Genius.

"If you don"t risk anything, you risk even more."
Found in the topic Risk.

"I am thinking of the onion again.... Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women"s issues" and learn that they are everyone"s issues ? essential to survival on planet Earth."
Found in the topic Woe.

"Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."
Found in the topic Life.

Interesting Quotes

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God--but to create him.Arthur C. Clarke - English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - )

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.Ashley Montague