What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is… — 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
I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting,… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“And then there are the eternal questions of love and sex. Can there be friendship between men and women as long as… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seems both our kids and our parents were smarter than we were. We fell somewhere between our parents' thirties idealism… — 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
It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it1s cracked up to be. That's why people are… — 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
