Erica Jong Quotes
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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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 most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.
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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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Love is serene and calm
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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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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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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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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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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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Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Home is where your books are.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women's issues" and learn that they are everyone's issues - essential to survival on planet Earth.
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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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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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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.