Erica Jong Quotes

Those who object to wit are envious of it.

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.

Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.

People will try to rain on your parade because they have no parade of their own.

A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way.

You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind.

All these haters mad because I'm so established.

Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.

The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.

When you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

[We often] criticize the people on TV: 'He just can't act.' 'You call that singing?' ... We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

Anyone who is gossiping is just insecure about that person they're gossiping about.

You know what they say, the high trees get the wind.

Don't be drinking the Haterade.

There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.

Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.

You know what you sound like? A jealous girl friend. And how are things on Planet You Wish?

I am sure the grapes are sour.

No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

In school that used to happen a lot: they'd get me to sing and then they'd hate me for it.

I don't know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It's so sick.

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

Haters are confused admirers who can’t understand why everybody else likes you

Any one who is much talked of be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.