Erica Jong Quotes
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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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We write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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Sex just as a drive, as a hormonal drive, is not very interesting.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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Perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.
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As a seasoned insomniac, I knew sometimes the way to beat sleeplessness was to outwit it: to pretend you didn't care about sleeping. Then sometimes sleep became piqued, like a rejected lover, and crept up to try to seduce you.
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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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The unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.