Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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But come back in November or December, in February or March, when the fog, la nebbia, settles upon the city like a marvelous monster, and you will have little trouble believing that things can appear and disappear in this labyrinthine city, or that time here could easily slip in its sprockets and take you, willingly or unwillingly, back.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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Love is serene and calm
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.