Erica Jong Quotes
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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.
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It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head of her art school that she was the best painter, but that she wouldn't get the biggest prize because she would waste her talent by having children. I think we have to get honest with girls about how they can expect the world to block them, and we have to prepare girls, and ourselves, to break through those blocks.
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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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Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by 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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I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
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I have ne'er been in a chamber with a lawyer when I did not wish either to scream with desperation or else fall into the deepest of sleeps, e'en when the matter concern'd my own future most profoundly.
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What I discovered was is that it's rare to find a person that you feel very intimate with, and you can sleep with lots of people and not find what you're looking for.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
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Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.
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What was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; he is afraid.
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Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
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I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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Fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.
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If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don't know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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What storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.