Erica Jong Quotes
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Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.
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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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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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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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We write poems as leaves give oxygen - so we can breathe.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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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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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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Language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.