Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
There is this tendency to think that if you could only find the magic way, then you could become a poet. "Tell… — 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
A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I hope we don't have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I don't 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
The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right. — 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
I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever… — 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
I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for… — 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
