Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
ERICA JONGMotherhood cannot finally be delegated.
ERICA JONGHow could one create life with someone who represented death?
ERICA JONGWhy does life need evidence of life?
ERICA JONGTo name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
ERICA JONGThere is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
ERICA JONGUnhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
ERICA JONGThe only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
ERICA JONGArt is always an energy exchange.
ERICA JONGThe trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
ERICA JONGI have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
ERICA JONGThe parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
ERICA JONGI don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
ERICA JONGI am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
ERICA JONGThough my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
ERICA JONGIf, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
ERICA JONGPhotographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
ERICA JONG