Love Quotes by Erica Jong

In loving life you love what can't survive...

— Erica Jong

It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.

— Erica Jong

Is perception equivalent to existence?

— Erica Jong

Keeping a journal implies hope.

— Erica Jong

I look forward and see myself look back.

— Erica Jong

The soul is awakened through service.

— Erica Jong

And what if I don't want forgiveness?

— Erica Jong

Love gives without taking

— Erica Jong

I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.

— Erica Jong

Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.

— Erica Jong

I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.

— Erica Jong

The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study...

— Erica Jong

Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry...

— Erica Jong

Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.

— Erica Jong

Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.

— Erica Jong

How could one create life with someone who represented death?

— Erica Jong

“But the fact is, she [the muse] won't be summoned. She alights when it damn well pleases her. She falls in love…

— Erica Jong

in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one…

— Erica Jong

I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting,…

— Erica Jong

If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a…

— Erica Jong

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

— Erica Jong

“Young women dream of romance and passion as men dream of conquest because those dreams are necessary goads to leaving home and…

— Erica Jong

Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the…

— Erica Jong

Loving someone is a loss of freedom -- but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.

— Erica Jong

In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn…

— Erica Jong

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking…

— Erica Jong

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it1s cracked up to be. That's why people are…

— Erica Jong

I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And…

— Erica Jong

What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is…

— Erica Jong

The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We…

— Erica Jong

“That is what you love a friend for: the ability to change your angle of vision, bring back your best self when…

— Erica Jong

Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns,…

— Erica Jong

Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys…

— Erica Jong

Feminism is really the right of women to be full human beings and to not be defined only by their childbearing function.…

— Erica Jong

“In a sane world, love and sex would not divide by gender. We could love like and unlike beings, love them for…

— Erica Jong

“A DOZEN PHALLACIES WOMEN BUY Phallacy 4. Men love it when you tell the truth about your relationship. Truth They hate it.…

— Erica Jong

“Somehow the idea of bearing his baby angers me. Let him bear his own baby! If I have a baby I want…

— Erica Jong

“Sometimes it seems both our kids and our parents were smarter than we were. We fell somewhere between our parents' thirties idealism…

— Erica Jong

“And then there are the eternal questions of love and sex. Can there be friendship between men and women as long as…

— Erica Jong

There is a rhythm to the ending...

— Erica Jong