“It is heresy in America to embrace any way of life except as half of a couple. Solitude is un-American.” — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“A good woman would have given her life to the care and feeding of her husband's madness. I was not a good… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“You're afraid of criticism,' she says. 'But criticism is a sign of life! You know who doesn't get criticized? Nonentities! Only the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
People are terrified. A lot of them are in relationships that aren't satisfying, and if you tell them they can change their… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Will you ever? I dont think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am.I… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I don't 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 Image
It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is… — 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
