Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
ERICA JONGAs women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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I 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.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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You 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.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
ERICA JONG