Erica Jong Quotes

I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it.

I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.

Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them.

Way too high maintenance to be in a relationship with an actor. I don't need a man who spends as much time in front of the mirror as me.

Spiderlike, I spin mirrors, Loyal to my image.

The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror.

It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable I resolved to spare myself such mortification in the future.

We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world, And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh.

Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

I have little patience with anyone who is not self-satisfied. I am always pleased to see my friends, happy to be with my wife and family, but the high spot of every day is when I first catch a glimpse of myself in the shaving mirror.

The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

Miss Trent regarded her thoughtfully. "Well, it's an odd circumstance, but I've frequently observed that whenever you boast of your beauty you seem to lose some of it. I expect it must be the change in your expression." Startled, Tiffany flew to gaze anxiously into the ornate looking-glass which hung above the fireplace. "Do I?" she asked naively. "Really do I, Ancilla?" "Yes, decidedly," replied Miss Trent, perjuring her soul without the least hesitation.

Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.

She smiles at her reflection in a spoon.

Thinking that your story is so interesting that other people will want to listen to it or read it or pay to hear it, that's - what kind of person thinks that? A monster of self-regard. It's not normal thinking.

[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola.

I brought a mirror to Lovers' Lane. I told everybody I'm Narcissus.

Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.

Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.

Whatever it is, it feels like it's laughing at me Through the glass of a two-sided mirror.

The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.

Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass.