Erica Jong Quotes
-
Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
-
I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.
-
We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
-
If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
-
Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job.
-
Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.
-
I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
-
My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
-
Each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.
-
The only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.
-
I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
-
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
-
I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
-
Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
-
I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on.
-
At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore.
-
biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
-
Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.
-
When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
-
I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
-
All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
-
The older we get, the more Jewish we become in my family.
-
A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.
-
Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.