Erica Jong Quotes
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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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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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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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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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We write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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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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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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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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But come back in November or December, in February or March, when the fog, la nebbia, settles upon the city like a marvelous monster, and you will have little trouble believing that things can appear and disappear in this labyrinthine city, or that time here could easily slip in its sprockets and take you, willingly or unwillingly, back.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.