Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight very hard to do what they wanted to do in the world - that it wasn't an easy choice. But I think the most important part is that we all want the right to be taken seriously as human beings, and to use our talents without reservation, and that's still not possible for women.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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What all the ads and whorescopes seemed to imply was that if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair, your boobs, your eyelashes, your armpits, your crotch, your stars, your scars, your choice of Scotch in bars - you would meet a beautiful powerful, potent, and rich man who would satisfy every longing, fill every hole, make your heart skip a beat (or stand still), make you misty, and fly you to the moon (preferably on gossamer wings), where you would live totally satisfied forever.
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We write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.