Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Why should a bad marriage have been so much more compelling than no marriage? Why had I clung to my misery so?… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“If I loved him, would I censor my writing to please him? If I married him, would I force my writing to… — 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
There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“But at the bottom of all the gloom, there is a sense that we are responsible for each other -- if not… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“If you were lucky enough to feel safe enough to fight and struggle, then you were lucky indeed. If you felt loved… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtshiponly backward. You try to start… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him,… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Even when we are screaming and throwing things, we are friends. Who is the man and who is the woman? Sometimes neither… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Yet early on in the marriage I found myself -- despite all my self-promises -- drifting into the role of wife: focusing… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Here is the difference between Oscar Wilde and me. For all the tortures he suffered, for all the ugliness of being punished… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“The zipless fuck is absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives. There is no power game . The man is not… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“But what was so great about marriage? I had been married and married. It had its good points, but it also had… — 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
I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good… — 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
Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Even now, we have laryngitis from screaming at each other: the dirty little secret of a durable marriage.” — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an… — 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
