Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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 JONGMemory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
ERICA JONGCreativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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 JONGPeople always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
ERICA JONGIf we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
ERICA JONGWomen are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
ERICA JONGThere is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
ERICA JONGI don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
ERICA JONGIt is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
ERICA JONGShakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
ERICA JONGYou 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.
ERICA JONGI hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
ERICA JONGHow could one create life with someone who represented death?
ERICA JONGIt takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
ERICA JONGIs a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
ERICA JONG