Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
ERICA JONGSilence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
ERICA JONGNarrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
ERICA JONGAnd what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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 JONGMotherhood cannot finally be delegated.
ERICA JONGEvery time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
ERICA JONGI don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
ERICA JONGCreativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
ERICA JONGYou can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
ERICA JONGIf we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
ERICA JONGAs women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
ERICA JONGThe only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
ERICA JONGTo name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
ERICA JONGBefore things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
ERICA JONGAmbivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
ERICA JONGIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONG