{"author":"Erica Jong","author_id":"Erica+Jong","total_quotes":96,"quotes":[{"text":"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.","author":"Erica Jong","tags":["creativity"],"id":2925,"author_id":"Erica+Jong"},{"text":"Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.","author":"Erica Jong","tags":["poetry"],"id":6846,"author_id":"Erica+Jong"},{"text":"When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.","author":"Erica Jong","tags":["silence","easy","pen "],"id":8076,"author_id":"Erica+Jong"},{"text":"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.","author":"Erica Jong","tags":["talent","dark","place "],"id":15639,"author_id":"Erica+Jong"},{"text":"Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.","author":"Erica Jong","tags":["courage","talent"],"id":35601,"author_id":"Erica+Jong"},{"text":"Tears are a form of communication - like speech - and require a listener.","author":"Erica Jong","tags":["emotions","sadness","tears"],"id":37162,"author_id":"Erica+Jong"},{"text":"I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ...","author":"Erica Jong","tags":["creating","positive","change"],"id":41096,"author_id":"Erica+Jong"},{"text":"Naomi Wolf dares to explode the myth of 'victim feminism' and pleads for allowing women to be as full of good and bad desires as men, as avid for sexual fulfilment and power as men, but held back by the twin myths of good-girlism and sentimental sisterhood. Though she is perhaps too sanguine about women quickly overcoming their fear of power, Wolf fills me with hope because I see her analysis as having shattered the false categories that imprisoned my generation. Women do not have to agree about everything to join in alliance with each other to promote female power. Women do not have to cast out their inner bad girl to assert their right to power. Women do not have to cast out their sexuality to be 'good sisters'.","author":"Erica Jong","tags":["feminism"],"id":46964,"author_id":"Erica+Jong"},{"text":"But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said.On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop.But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?'Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.","author":"Erica Jong","tags":["atheism","inspirational"],"id":50323,"author_id":"Erica+Jong"},{"text":"How did I get to be a grown-up? At times, I find myself still sitting on the hillside, plotting revenge against the adult world.","author":"Erica Jong","tags":["growing-up"],"id":55139,"author_id":"Erica+Jong"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":96,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}