Erica Jong Quotes About Culture

• En determinados momentos históricos, los abuelos asumieron la responsabilidad de criar a los hijos. En muchas culturas, todavía lo hacen. Los abuelos chinos que pueden jubilarse a los 55 años se ven por todo Pekín dando a luz a sus nietos. En Estados Unidos, no podemos permitirnos jubilarnos a los 55.

  Erica Jong

  Responsibility, Grandparent, Chinese

• Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.

  Erica Jong

  Cultura, Mundo, Camino

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.97, Penguin

• I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on.

  Erica Jong

  Pensar, Ideas, Volar

• If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.

  Erica Jong

  Art, Expression, Diverse Society

  Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.84, Penguin

• we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.

  Erica Jong

  Hurt, Loss, Gains

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