I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Rendall's first law of jealousy: jealousy does the cock harder and pussy wetter.” — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting,… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I was surprised by my daughter's generation and how they were rebelling against the '70s idea that sex was perfect and it… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Sex is God's joke on the human race ... if we didn't have sex to make us ridiculous, She would have had… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good,… — 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
Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities. — 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
