There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
ERICA JONGThere is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
ERICA JONGA book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
ERICA JONGYou cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
ERICA JONGA poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
ERICA JONGHow wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
ERICA JONGIn a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
ERICA JONGMy reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
ERICA JONGThere’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
ERICA JONGSolitude is un-American.
ERICA JONGFlesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
ERICA JONGThe best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
ERICA JONGThe words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
ERICA JONGJealousy is all the fun you think they had.
ERICA JONGI want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
ERICA JONGLife has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
ERICA JONGI see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
ERICA JONG