You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I was surprised by my daughter's generation and how they were rebelling against the '70s idea that sex was perfect and it… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should." — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru?… — 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
