Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
ERICA JONGMotherhood cannot finally be delegated.
ERICA JONGDo 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.
ERICA JONGThey keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
ERICA JONGI don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
ERICA JONGThough my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
ERICA JONGLove is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
ERICA JONGSouls have neither Sex nor Colour.
ERICA JONGIf you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
ERICA JONGI stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
ERICA JONGWhat I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
ERICA JONGIn loving life you love what can’t survive.
ERICA JONGThe best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
ERICA JONGTake your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
ERICA JONGIt is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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 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 JONG