Erica Jong

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.

Erica Jong

Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.

Erica Jong

We all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.

Erica Jong

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we’re ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

Erica Jong

We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

Erica Jong

We’ve lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.

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

When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.

Erica Jong

When I’m sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it’s silence and despair! It’s not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.

Erica Jong

Whenever I go anywhere but Italy for a vacation, I always feel vaguely disappointed, as if I have made a mistake.

Erica Jong