Life Quotes by Erica Jong

Why does life need evidence of life?

— Erica Jong

Surviving means being born over and over.

— Erica Jong

“Jews are made by the existence of anti-semitism…”

— Erica Jong

Is perception equivalent to existence?

— Erica Jong

In loving life you love what can't survive...

— Erica Jong

It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.

— Erica Jong

The soul is awakened through service.

— Erica Jong

“Is life much too long for an immortal?”

— Erica Jong

I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

— Erica Jong

Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a…

— Erica Jong

What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?

— Erica Jong

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.

— Erica Jong

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

— Erica Jong

I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable…

— Erica Jong

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it...

— Erica Jong

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

— Erica Jong

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

It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was…

— Erica Jong

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

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

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

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding…

— Erica Jong

You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your…

— Erica Jong

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

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

we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we…

— Erica Jong

“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

“...affirm my life every morning and let myself have a good day, free myself each night to dream the necessary dreams, find…

— Erica Jong

“Whatever science has done to destroy the world, it has unquestionably saved the lives of women and their babies. Nature is not…

— Erica Jong

“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

Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.

— Erica Jong

Hate generalizes; love is particular.

— Erica Jong

How could one create life with someone who represented death?

— Erica Jong

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

“It is heresy in America to embrace any way of life except as half of a couple. Solitude is un-American.”

— Erica Jong

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame.

— Erica Jong

The sexuality doesn't end. It really doesn't. You're sexual your whole life, if you're a sexual person.

— Erica Jong

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

“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

Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of…

— Erica Jong