If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. Erica Jong View this quote
Feminism is teaching. I’ve gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I’ve met and worked with. Erica Jong
Erica Jong
Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses. Erica Jong
For the taste of the fruit is the tongue’s dream, and the apple’s red is the passion of the eye. Erica Jong
Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends. Erica Jong
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. Erica Jong
God is not dead but missing in action, and we are destined to wander again for more millennia than there are undiscovered stars. Erica Jong
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed. Erica Jong
Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms! Erica Jong
Hate generalizes; love is particular. Erica Jong
Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it. Erica Jong
Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
March 26th, 1942
