Quotes by Jong, Erica

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent >>

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. >>

Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your >>

Quotations about Cosmetics

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another. >>

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear >>

Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries in >>

Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion? All the cosmetics names seemed obscenely obvious to me in their promises of sexual bliss. They were all firming or uplifting or invigorating. They made you tingle. Or glow. Or feel young. They were prepared with hormones or placentas or royal jelly. All the juice and joy missing in the lives of these women were to be supplied by the contents of jars and bottles. No wonder they would spend twenty dollars for an ounce of face makeup or thirty for a half-ounce of hormone cream. What price bliss? What price sexual ecstasy?

Jong, Erica