Erica Jong

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

Erica Jong

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

My husband and I read obituaries together more often than we have sex.

Erica Jong

My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.

Erica Jong

Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.

Erica Jong

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.

Erica Jong

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 a backlash against progressive ideas.

Erica Jong

People are terrified. A lot of them are in relationships that aren’t satisfying, and if you tell them they can change their life, they get really scared.

Erica Jong

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Erica Jong

Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.

Erica Jong