Erica Jong Quotes
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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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People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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In freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
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I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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The bruise on the heart which at first feels incredibly tender to the slightest touch eventually turns all the shades of the rainbow and stops aching. We forget about it. We even forget we have hearts until the next time. And then we wonder how we ever could have forgotten. We think this one is better, because, in fact, we cannot fully remember the time before.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes.
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Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile.
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Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.
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It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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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 exhortation. Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved...Freedom is...not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.