Erica Jong Quotes
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The sexuality doesn't end. It really doesn't. You're sexual your whole life, if you're a sexual person.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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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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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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I was surprised by my daughter's generation and how they were rebelling against the '70s idea that sex was perfect and it should be sought.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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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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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not yet exist, they must also create their audience. Sometimes the audience is not yet ready. Sometimes it has yet to be born.
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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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Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.
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I think we’re men and women more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.
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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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Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
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Home is where your books are.
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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 soul is awakened through service.