Frasi di Erica Jong pagina 2

“Alcuni considerano il vizio una virtù come se il vizio ben fatto fosse esso stesso virtù, mentre una virtù mal fatta fosse l'essenza del vizio.”

Paracadute & baci

“C'è chi scambia l'amicizia per compassione e non vuole accettare aiuto per paura di passare per debole.”

Fanny

“L'orgoglio è del cervello, non del cuore.”

Fanny

“Le paure sono più sonore di qualunque altro pensiero.”

Fanny

“Lo spirito è in parte congenito, in parte si plasma: e sei tu, ricordalo bene, l'artefice della tua Anima.”

Fanny

“Manifestiamo l'amore che proviamo per un amante sul corpo di un altro.”

Fanny

“Non esiste peggior pazzo di chi non nutre alcun dubbio sulle sue convinzioni.”

Fanny

“Quanti si ritengono miserevoli odiano tenacemente quelli che vorrebbero attrarli nella cerchia dei felici.”

Fanny

“Il problema è che se non rischi nulla, rischi ancora di più.”

Fanny

“La soluzione finale proposta dal sogno nazista: un mondo senza ebrei e senza maschi.”

Fanny

“Il matrimonio ha dei lati buoni ma ne ha anche parecchi di cattivi. I lati buoni del matrimonio erano per lo più buoni al negativo.”

Origine: Paura di volare, p. 87

“[Su Cinquanta sfumature di grigio] È la storia di Cenerentola riscritta con l'aggiunta delle scene sadomaso. La ragazza diciottenne, per di più vergine, che si innamora del principe azzurro, che le regala qualunque cosa in cambio di un po' di bondage.”

Origine: Paura di volare, p. 113

“Children are no antidote to loneliness.”

Origine: Da un'intervista rilasciata al Washington Post; citato in Paolo Mastrolilli, Erica Jong torna, e se la prende con E. L. James, colpevole di aver scritto la serie anti femminsta di Grey http://www.lastampa.it/2015/09/10/esteri/erica-jong-contro-cinquanta-sfumature-di-grigio-TG9NOuOYOdvcFbBUcdd1wL/pagina.html, La Stampa.it, 10 settembre 2015.

“«Io ti ho dato tutta la libertà che volevi.»
«Questa è una contraddizione in termini. Una persona non è mai libera se la libertà le deve essere 'data'. Chi sei tu per 'darmi' la libertà?»”

Fear of Flying

“Un consiglio è quella cosa che si chiede quando si sa già la risposta ma si preferirebbe non saperla…”

Fear of Flying

“Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.”

Origine: Da Come salvarsi la vita, traduzione di Marisa Caramella, Bompiani, 2014.

Erica Jong: Frasi in inglese

“Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.”

Erica Jong libro Paura di volare

Origine: Fear of Flying

“There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.”

“…if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”

Erica Jong libro Paura di volare

Origine: Fear of Flying

“Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.”

Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
Variante: ... if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

“You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare”

“the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.”

“Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture…Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.”

“Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily… Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.”

Erica Jong libro Paura di volare

Variante: Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture... Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
Origine: Fear of Flying

“I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they've always reflected it in their art. End of story.”

Origine: Sappho's Leap

“All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.”

“I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps. We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves!”

Erica Jong libro Paura di volare

Origine: Fear of Flying

“Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.”

Erica Jong libro Paura di volare

Origine: Fear of Flying

“I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.”

Erica Jong libro Paura di volare

Origine: Fear of Flying

“Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.”

Erica Jong libro Paura di volare

Fear of Flying (1973)

“They all cheat sooner or later. You might as well have one who isn't a bore the rest of the time.”

Erica Jong libro Paura di volare

About Men
Fear of Flying (1973)

“If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

“Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

“All people believe their suffering is greater than others.”

Erica Jong libro Paura di volare

Fear of Flying (1973)

“…the ocean kept falling into itself, gathering itself up, and falling into itself again.”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

“Betrayal does that -- betrays the betrayer.”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

“Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love…”

Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)

“Photographs… are the most curious indicators of reality.”

Erica Jong libro Paura di volare

Fear of Flying (1973)

“Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life.”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

“It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.”

Erica Jong's father (a musician, songwriter and later business man), his two pieces of advice for her. Given in the Times Literary Supplement, 7 October 1994, page 44.
Other

“It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

“The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.”

Erica Jong libro Paura di volare

Fear of Flying (1973)