Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“That is what you love a friend for: the ability to change your angle of vision, bring back your best self when… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Loving someone is a loss of freedom -- but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Feminism is really the right of women to be full human beings and to not be defined only by their childbearing function.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“A DOZEN PHALLACIES WOMEN BUY Phallacy 4. Men love it when you tell the truth about your relationship. Truth They hate it.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a… — 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
“But the fact is, she [the muse] won't be summoned. She alights when it damn well pleases her. She falls in love… — 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
I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you. — 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
