Erica Jong Quotes
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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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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When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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Being a daughter is only half the equation; bearing one is the other.
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
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We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.
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What makes a Man love Death, Fanny? Is it because he hopes to avert his own by watchin' the Deaths of others? Doth he hope to devour Death by devourin' Executions with his Eyes? I'll ne'er understand it, if I live to be eight hundred Years. The Human Beast is more Beast than Human, 'tis true.
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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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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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It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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I remember everything but forgive anyway.