Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should." — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing. — 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
Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
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
Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people, when they read about a woman who acknowledges her sexuality and her feelings, get really scared.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I hope we don't have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Women in America read 'lifestyle' pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us we must veil ourselves in make-up to… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
There is this tendency to think that if you could only find the magic way, then you could become a poet. "Tell… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Loving someone is a loss of freedom -- but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life. — 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
I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare. — 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
The bruise on the heart which at first feels incredibly tender to the slightest touch eventually turns all the shades of the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple.… — 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
