Erica Jong

We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.

Erica Jong

You see alot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Erica Jong

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: No one to blame.

Erica Jong

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 bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother – how reading goes out the window and thinking too.

Erica Jong

A baby’s mother also needs a mother.

Erica Jong

A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

Erica Jong

A good woman would have given her life to the care and feeding of her husband’s madness. I was not a good woman. I had too many other things to do.

Erica Jong

A person’s not free if their freedom has to be ‘given’.

Erica Jong

All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean – then fall in. But we also write the life raft.

Erica Jong

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

Erica Jong