--- title: "19 Needs Quotes By Erica Jong" description: "19 Needs quotes by Erica Jong. Plus more from Erica Jong and more Needs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/942/erica-jong-445_doe_why-does-life-need-evidence-of-life-5279_527948.jpg" --- > [Why does life need evidence of life?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/why-does-life-need-evidence-of-life/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/942/erica-jong-445_doe_why-does-life-need-evidence-of-life-5279_527948.jpg) > [A baby's mother also needs a mother.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/a-baby-s-mother-also-needs-a-mother/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/449/erica-jong-445_baby_a-baby-s-mother-also-needs-a-mother-1693_1693903.jpg) > [The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/the-best-slave-does-not-need-to-be-beaten-she-beats-herself/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1fd/erica-jong-445_beaten_the-best-slave-does-not-need-to-be-beate_351521.jpg) > [If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/if-we-are-all-made-of-god-it-is-our-friends-who-remind-us-we-pass-the/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd9/erica-jong-445_friendship_if-we-are-all-made-of-god-it-is-our-frie_2508252.jpg) > [I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/i-don-t-necessarily-read-everything-i-read-what-i-need-to-read-to/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c9f/erica-jong-445_book_i-don-t-necessarily-read-everything-i-re_1696283.jpg) > [We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/we-all-parent-the-best-we-can-being-human-we-re-ambivalent-we-want/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa0/erica-jong-445_ambivalent_we-all-parent-the-best-we-can-being-huma_664344.jpg) > [If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/if-we-can-be-sufficient-unto-ourselves-we-need-fear-no-entangling-webs/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/796/erica-jong-445_fear_if-we-can-be-sufficient-unto-ourselves-w_3072628.jpg) > [“Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/books-go-out-into-the-world-travel-mysteriously-from-hand-to-hand-and/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ce/erica-jong-445_book_books-go-out-into-the-world-travel-myste_597316.jpg) > [Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/motherhood-cannot-finally-be-delegated-breast-feeding-may-succumb-to/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bed/erica-jong-445_being-a-mom_motherhood-cannot-finally-be-delegated-b_648410.jpg) > [Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/writing-is-one-of-the-few-professions-left-where-you-take-all-the/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b66/erica-jong-445_audience_writing-is-one-of-the-few-professions-le_2487043.jpg) > [You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/you-reach-a-point-in-life-where-you-realize-that-you-might-as-well-do/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/589/erica-jong-445_being-loved_you-reach-a-point-in-life-where-you-real_1123888.jpg) > [Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/not-everybody-has-to-be-a-parent-in-fact-in-an-overpopulated-world/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a4/erica-jong-445_children_not-everybody-has-to-be-a-parent-in-fact_1004349.jpg) > [I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/i-know-so-many-women-in-their-fifties-sixties-and-seventies-who/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c45/erica-jong-445_amazing_i-know-so-many-women-in-their-fifties-si_1101447.jpg) > [beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Façade must needs have lovely Chambers within;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/beware-the-lure-of-a-handsome-face-the-all-too-ready-assumption-that/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afc/erica-jong-445_assumption_beware-the-lure-of-a-handsome-face-the-a_1390273.jpg) > [What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/what-i-would-like-to-give-my-daughter-is-freedom-and-this-is/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8fd/erica-jong-445_back-when_what-i-would-like-to-give-my-daughter-is_298381.jpg) > [I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/i-understand-that-unless-you-have-a-government-of-laws-rather-than-a/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bc/erica-jong-445_amendments_i-understand-that-unless-you-have-a-gove_1434803.jpg) > [we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/we-need-poetry-most-at-those-moments-when-life-astounds-us-with/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f5/erica-jong-445_celebration_we-need-poetry-most-at-those-moments-whe_884033.jpg) > [I didn't believe in systems. Everything human was imperfect and ultimately absurd. What did I believe in then? In humor. In laughing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/i-didn-t-believe-in-systems-everything-human-was-imperfect-and/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca0/erica-jong-445_absurd_i-didn-t-believe-in-systems-everything-h_1171926.jpg) > [We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly...spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/we-need-quiet-time-to-examine-our-lives-openly-and-honestly-spending-2/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e3/erica-jong-445_alone-time_we-need-quiet-time-to-examine-our-lives_498320.jpg) ## Other authors on Needs ## More by Erica Jong > [“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/it-took-me-years-to-learn-to-sit-at-my-desk-for-more-than-two-minutes/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/will-you-ever-i-dont-think-you-will-ever-fully-understand-how-you-ve/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [Give advice to your children while they're young enough to believe you know what you're talking about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/give-advice-to-your-children-while-they-re-young-enough-to-believe/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/perhaps-all-artists-were-in-a-sense-housewives-tenders-of-the-earth/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/i-have-lived-my-life-according-to-this-principle-if-i-m-afraid-of-it/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 move to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/i-thought-to-spend-my-declining-years-writing-poetry-and-teaching-but/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [“Naomi Wolf dares to explode the myth of 'victim feminism' and pleads for allowing women to be as full of good and bad desires…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/naomi-wolf-dares-to-explode-the-myth-of-victim-feminism-and-pleads/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [I knew I was in England by the smell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/i-knew-i-was-in-england-by-the-smell/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/the-lives-of-great-men-are-more-oft-at-variance-with-their-profess-d/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/women-s-books-are-kind-of-discriminated-against-if-a-man-writes-a/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/many-many-people-have-done-a-lot-more-sexual-experimentation-than-i/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [“Is life much too long for an immortal?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/is-life-much-too-long-for-an-immortal/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/don-t-ye-know-that-ev-ry-soul-on-earth-feels-itself-to-be-an-orphan/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/critics-write-out-of-intellectual-exercise-not-poets-poets-write/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/once-i-worshipped-keats-for-dying-young-now-i-think-it-s-braver-to/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/needs/erica-jong/#itemlist", "name": "19 Needs Quotes By Erica Jong", "numberOfItems": 19, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Why does life need evidence of life?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Erica Jong" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/why-does-life-need-evidence-of-life/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/942/erica-jong-445_doe_why-does-life-need-evidence-of-life-5279_527948.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/942/erica-jong-445_doe_why-does-life-need-evidence-of-life-5279_527948.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/942/erica-jong-445_doe_why-does-life-need-evidence-of-life-5279_527948.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Why does life need evidence of life?” — Erica Jong", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A baby's mother also needs a mother.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Erica Jong" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/a-baby-s-mother-also-needs-a-mother/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/449/erica-jong-445_baby_a-baby-s-mother-also-needs-a-mother-1693_1693903.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/449/erica-jong-445_baby_a-baby-s-mother-also-needs-a-mother-1693_1693903.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/449/erica-jong-445_baby_a-baby-s-mother-also-needs-a-mother-1693_1693903.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A baby's mother also needs a mother.” — Erica Jong", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The best slave does not need to be beaten. 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