Erica Jong Quotes
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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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.
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Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
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If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.