Explore Quotes by Erica Jong

As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.

They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.

Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."

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

Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.

Love is serene and calm

Love gives without taking

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.

I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.

Betrayal betrays the betrayer.

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

Hate generalizes; love is particular.

Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.

Solitude is un-American.

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly...spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.- Susan Taylor--Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.

Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.

Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women's issues" and learn that they are everyone's issues - essential to survival on planet Earth.

I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.

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.

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.