Erica Jong Quotes
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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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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.
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The only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.
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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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We all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.
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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 !
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Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.
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Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.
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Each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.
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Feminism is really the right of women to be full human beings and to not be defined only by their childbearing function. Feminism is really the right of women to be human beings. That's it, yet that's so frightening to a lot of people. A full human being wants satisfying work and love. A full human being is entitled to both, and is not simply defined by only one aspect of her being.
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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.
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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.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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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.
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A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates (470-399 B.C.) "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.
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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?
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.