Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world... — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose. — 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
We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in… — 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
“Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I don't think there's just one person for everyone. It would be very hard for me to be with a guy who… — 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
As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys… — 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
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
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
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
In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Generations of women have sacrificed their lives to become their mothers. But we do not have that luxury any more. The world… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It is the artists who make the true value of the world, though at times they may have to starve to do… — 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
