Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
ERICA JONGLife has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
ERICA JONGI want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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 vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
ERICA JONGDivorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
ERICA JONGThe best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
ERICA JONGIf you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONGTo name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
ERICA JONGNarrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
ERICA JONGSomeday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
ERICA JONGThe dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
ERICA JONGImages are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
ERICA JONGThe camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
ERICA JONGI am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
ERICA JONGHome is where your books are.
ERICA JONGHow could one create life with someone who represented death?
ERICA JONG