Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm. — 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
What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve? — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion? — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
From Roman times to the present, Italy has been a country to fall in love with - a tribute to all that… — 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
“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
