If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone. — 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
If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is… — 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
Sex is God's joke on the human race ... if we didn't have sex to make us ridiculous, She would have had… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket… — 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
The sexuality doesn't end. It really doesn't. You're sexual your whole life, if you're a sexual person. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid - as if we'd disabled them utterly. Do all women… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
What makes a Man love Death, Fanny? Is it because he hopes to avert his own by watchin' the Deaths of others?… — 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
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people, when they read about a woman who acknowledges her sexuality and her feelings, get really scared.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good,… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I… — 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
The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist. — 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
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
Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
People are terrified. A lot of them are in relationships that aren't satisfying, and if you tell them they can change their… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no… — 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
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
If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own… — 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
