Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.
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of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid... They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild - and what happened? The men wilted.
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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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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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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Home is where your books are.
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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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What makes a Man love Death, Fanny? Is it because he hopes to avert his own by watchin' the Deaths of others? Doth he hope to devour Death by devourin' Executions with his Eyes? I'll ne'er understand it, if I live to be eight hundred Years. The Human Beast is more Beast than Human, 'tis true.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.
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And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.