Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should." — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share
Will you ever? I dont think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am.I don't think… — Erica Jong Copy Share
Give advice to your children while they're young enough to believe you know what you're talking about. — Erica Jong Copy Share
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. — Erica Jong Copy Share
I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it. — Erica Jong Copy Share
I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to… — Erica Jong Copy Share
“Naomi Wolf dares to explode the myth of 'victim feminism' and pleads for allowing women to be as full of good and bad desires… — Erica Jong Copy Share
The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em. — Erica Jong Copy Share
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… — Erica Jong Copy Share
Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart. — Erica Jong Copy Share
