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

About Erica Jong

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Erica Jong (née Mann; born March 26, 1942) is an American novelist, satirist, and poet known particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying. The book became famously controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism, selling over 37 million copies worldwide.

More quotations from Erica Jong

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

The trick is not how much pain you feel—but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

I am not sure at all / if love is salve / or just / a deeper kind of wound.

Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of tv soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!

More quotations tagged with “advice”

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

—English proverb

Don't give advice. It will come back and bite you in the [butt]. Don't take anyone's advice. So, my advice to you is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine.

—Ellen DeGeneres

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

—Edna St. Vincent Millay

Ask advice only of your equals.

—Danish Proverb

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.

—Brendan Francis

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