#ERICA JONG

[journey-to-balance]

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

Erica Jong | Born: 1942 (age 82 years)| American novelist, satirist, and poet who became famously controversial for her attitudes towards female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism.

[leggerezza-dell-essere]

1. Eliminare i sensi di colpa.

2. Non fare della sofferenza un culto.

3. Vivere nel presente (o almeno nell’immediato futuro).

4. Fare sempre le cose di cui si ha più paura; il coraggio è una cosa che s’impara a gustare col tempo, come il caviale.

5. Fidarsi della gioia.

6. Se il malocchio ti fissa, guarda da un’altra parte.

7. Prepararsi ad avere ottantasette anni.

Erica Jong, Come salvarsi la vita

_____Sandra Ramos Casasampera

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

She is the witch. You know her, yet you do not know her. She has been with you always, yet she eludes you. She is your mother, your sister, your inmost self. You love her and fear her. You hate her, but are drawn to her.

— Erica Jong, from Witches: Poems, The Witch

[perfectquote]

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

Erica Jong

[eluviannaa]

[byzantinia]

( 026 )

I am sick of haunting myself from within like an old house.

( ERICA JONG )

[gennsoup]

Our souls are slow. They walk miles behind our long shadows. They do not dance. They need all their strength merely to follow us.

Erica Jong, Catching Up

[thoughtkick]

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

Erica Jong

[trailofleaves]

Erica Jong To Whom It May Concern

In Autumn, as in Spring, the sap flows, the sap wishes to race against heartbeats before the winter, before the winter buries us in her usual shroud of ice.

I turn to you knowing that unrequited love is good for poetry, knowing that pain will nudge the muse as well as anything, knowing that you are afraid, fettered to a life you do not love, & so unfree that freedom seems more fearful even than the familiar business of being a grumbling slave. I lived that way once, & I know that freedom is its own reward, that it propagates itself by means of runners,

that nobody gives it to you, not even me to you,

but that you must seize it with your own two quaking hands & pluck the strawberry it bears in the green ungrumbling

Spring.

[surqrised]

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

Erica Jong

[quotefeeling]

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

Erica Jong

[veryslowreader]

Witches by Erica Jong

Charmed: "Be Careful What You Witch For"

[thehopefulquotes]

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

Erica Jong

[perfectquote]

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

Erica Jong

[eluviannaa]

I don't believe in fate or soulmates, but I do think that when you find a book with a bookmark left inside, you should read that page (or poem).

[gennsoup]

Gray days, the wind hobbling down sidestreets, I'm walking in a thirties photograph, the prehistoric age before my birth.

Erica Jong, The Heidelberg Lady