Erica Jong Quotes
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The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
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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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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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Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Love is serene and calm
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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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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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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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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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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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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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Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.