Erica Jong

All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

Erica Jong

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

Erica Jong

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

Erica Jong

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

Erica Jong

Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.

Erica Jong

Being a daughter is only half the equation; bearing one is the other.

Erica Jong

Betrayal betrays the betrayer.

Erica Jong

Beware of the man who praises women’s liberation; he is about to quit his job.

Erica Jong

Beware of the man who wants to protect you; he will protect you from everything but himself.

Erica Jong

Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.

Erica Jong