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
Whenever I go anywhere but Italy for a vacation, I always feel vaguely disappointed, as if I have made a mistake. — 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
Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a… — 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
What I discovered was is that it's rare to find a person that you feel very intimate with, and you can sleep… — 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
I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I… — 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
The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever… — 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 Image
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 Image
Give advice to your children while they're young enough to believe you know what you're talking about. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it. — 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 move to… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“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 Image
The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em. — 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 literature. If… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
