Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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 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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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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Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job.
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Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.
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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 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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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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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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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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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.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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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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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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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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The older we get, the more Jewish we become in my family.
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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.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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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.