Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It was the old psychosomatic side-step. Everyone in my family dances it at every opportunity. You've given me a splitting headache! You've… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart.… — 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
we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts. — 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
Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
What all the ads and whorescopes seemed to imply was that if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair,… — 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
