Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns,… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
From Roman times to the present, Italy has been a country to fall in love with - a tribute to all that… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“In a sane world, love and sex would not divide by gender. We could love like and unlike beings, love them for… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion? — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Young women dream of romance and passion as men dream of conquest because those dreams are necessary goads to leaving home and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Somehow the idea of bearing his baby angers me. Let him bear his own baby! If I have a baby I want… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs. — 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
