Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on…

“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

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

Give advice to your children while they're young enough to believe you know what you're talking about.

— Erica Jong

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

— Erica Jong

I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

— Erica Jong

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

“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

I knew I was in England by the smell.

— Erica Jong

The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

— Erica Jong

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

Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.

— Erica Jong

“Is life much too long for an immortal?”

— Erica Jong

Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?

— Erica Jong

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

— Erica Jong

Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.

— Erica Jong