I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
ERICA JONGAs women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
More Erica Jong Quotes
-
-
Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
ERICA JONG -
Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
ERICA JONG -
You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
ERICA JONG -
The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
ERICA JONG -
If, 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 JONG -
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
ERICA JONG -
Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
ERICA JONG -
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
ERICA JONG -
How 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 JONG -
Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
ERICA JONG -
If 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 JONG -
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
ERICA JONG -
The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
ERICA JONG -
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
ERICA JONG -
Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
ERICA JONG






