Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others.… — 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
I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone… — 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
certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability,… — 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
