What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly...spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Façade must needs have lovely Chambers within;… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them.… — 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
