Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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Sex just as a drive, as a hormonal drive, is not very interesting.
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Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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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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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.
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Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
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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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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.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.
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Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love.
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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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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 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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Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; he is afraid.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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Poetry is fired by love.
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Fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.