Erica Jong Quotes
Whenever I go anywhere but Italy for a vacation, I always feel vaguely disappointed, as if I have made a mistake.
I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?
I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.
Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.
What I discovered was is that it's rare to find a person that you feel very intimate with, and you can sleep with lots of people and not find what you're looking for.
Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.
A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.
I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow.
When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.
From Roman times to the present, Italy has been a country to fall in love with - a tribute to all that is enduring, crazy, pagan, joyous, melancholy, at once banal and divine, in the human spirit.
The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look.
Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.
When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.
Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.
If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.
Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life.
She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.
the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.
I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
