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Nothing human was worth denying. Even if it was unspeakably ugly, we could learn from it, couldn't we? Or could we? I never questioned that at all. — Erica Jong

I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies. — Erica Jong

People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look. — Erica Jong

You merely pass the time, making millennia fly by. — Erica Jong

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. — Erica Jong

I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound. — Erica Jong

True intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex. — Erica Jong

We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe. — Erica Jong

Eating is never so simple as hunger. — Erica Jong

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. — Erica Jong

A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart. — Erica Jong

Sex is God's joke on the human race ... if we didn't have sex to make us ridiculous, She would have had to think up something else instead. — Erica Jong

Sexism kind of predisposes us to see men's work as more important than women's, and it is a problem, I guess, as writers, we have to change. — Erica Jong

Every woman artist has to kill her own grandmother. She perches on our shoulder whispering, Don't embarrass the family. — Erica Jong

The only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said. — Erica Jong

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child. — Erica Jong

What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation. — Erica Jong

We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it. — Erica Jong

You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you. — Erica Jong

What was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress? — Erica Jong

Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline. — Erica Jong

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. — Erica Jong

I could become servile, cloying, saccharinely sweet: the whole package of lies that passes in the world as femininity. — Erica Jong

And the trouble is, if you risk nothing, you risk even more ... — Erica Jong

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. — Erica Jong

I've never been able to control my public image. — Erica Jong

Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God. — Erica Jong

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own. — Erica Jong

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. — Erica Jong

When you start having lunch and actually eating, it's already over. — Erica Jong

We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began. — Erica Jong

I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy. — Erica Jong

The sexuality doesn't end. It really doesn't. You're sexual your whole life, if you're a sexual person. — Erica Jong

Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it. — Erica Jong

Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness. — Erica Jong

Loving someone is a loss of freedom
but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else. — Erica Jong

Because I loved myself, I was loved. — Erica Jong

I know that love is no cure, but rather the disease itself. — Erica Jong

Biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier. — Erica Jong

There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh. — Erica Jong

I was surprised by my daughter's generation and how they were rebelling against the '70s idea that sex was perfect and it should be sought. — Erica Jong

And what if I don't want forgiveness? — Erica Jong

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything. — Erica Jong

They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck. — Erica Jong

If we don't risk anything, we risk even more. — Erica Jong

When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life. — Erica Jong

Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly ... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator. — Erica Jong

Tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult. — Erica Jong

Writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them. — Erica Jong

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other. — Erica Jong

I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing. — Erica Jong

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist. — Erica Jong

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously. — Erica Jong

Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right. — Erica Jong

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable. — Erica Jong

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared. — Erica Jong

I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook. — Erica Jong

Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past. — Erica Jong

I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world ... — Erica Jong

Why should a bad marriage have been so much more compelling than no marriage? Why had I clung to my misery so? Why did I believe it was all I had? — Erica Jong

That's what a writer is -- a conqueror of fears. — Erica Jong

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage. — Erica Jong

Surviving means being born over and over. — Erica Jong

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did. — Erica Jong

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with. — Erica Jong

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone. — Erica Jong

Fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people. — Erica Jong

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it ... — Erica Jong

I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany. — Erica Jong

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. — Erica Jong

Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war. — Erica Jong

Why does life need evidence of life? — Erica Jong

Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world. — Erica Jong

A person's not free if their freedom has to be "given". — Erica Jong

I do a lot of teaching ... and so I think I know how hard it is for young writers, how they have to work two jobs to survive. — Erica Jong

Poetry is fired by love ... — Erica Jong

Both dogs and people are nicer after hitting bottom. — Erica Jong

Anger is really disappointed hope. — Erica Jong

I look forward and see myself look back. — Erica Jong

If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss. — Erica Jong

I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest. — Erica Jong

Friends love misery ... our misery is what endears us to our friends. — Erica Jong

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are. — Erica Jong

You don't have to beat a woman if you can make her feel guilty. — Erica Jong

I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older. — Erica Jong

We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality. — Erica Jong

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life. — Erica Jong

Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence. — Erica Jong

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets. — Erica Jong

The soul is awakened through service. — Erica Jong

In freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself. — Erica Jong

Whatwe fear we also desire, and what we desire we fear. — Erica Jong

It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks. — Erica Jong

Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry ... — Erica Jong

Love gives without taking — Erica Jong

When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded. — Erica Jong

Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world. — Erica Jong

Jews are made by the existence of anti-semitism ... — Erica Jong

I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it. — Erica Jong

Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily ... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself. — Erica Jong