Erica Jong

Home is where your books are.

Erica Jong

Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.

Erica Jong

I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.

Erica Jong

I am in a rage against age.

Erica Jong

I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.

Erica Jong

I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.

Erica Jong

I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.

Erica Jong

I don’t believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.

Erica Jong

I don’t necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I’m trying to finish.

Erica Jong

I don’t think there’s just one person for everyone. It would be very hard for me to be with a guy who was not bright or funny. And he’d have to see the absurdities of the world, not exactly as I see them necessarily.

Erica Jong