Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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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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Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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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.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians and easy lays. They are gluttons for sweets and savories. They devour life and always want more. They have sap, spirit, sex. Books are panderers. The Jews are not wrong to worship books. A real book has pheromones and sprouts grass through its cover.
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The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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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.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.
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I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.
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Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish?