Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her… — 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
As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly...spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.… — 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
