Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it... — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a… — 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
What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve? — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it… — 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
I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was… — 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… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I didn't believe in systems. Everything human was imperfect and ultimately absurd. What did I believe in then? In humor. In laughing… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“...affirm my life every morning and let myself have a good day, free myself each night to dream the necessary dreams, find… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Whatever science has done to destroy the world, it has unquestionably saved the lives of women and their babies. Nature is not… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“In striving to fulfill our identities as women, it's important not to confound the various passages of life with each other. What… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“There's no shame in loving life above death. Otherwise I would be dead. What use would that be to the gods, who… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“A good woman would have given her life to the care and feeding of her husband's madness. I was not a good… — 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
“You're afraid of criticism,' she says. 'But criticism is a sign of life! You know who doesn't get criticized? Nonentities! Only the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is… — 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
