What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve? — 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
“...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
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
“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
“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
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
Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it... — 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
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
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
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
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
I don't 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
Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“It is heresy in America to embrace any way of life except as half of a couple. Solitude is un-American.” — 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
“You’re not a secretary; you’re a poet. What makes you think your life is going to be uncomplicated? What makes you think… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable… — 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
