Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
ERICA JONGAllow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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 JONGI 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.
ERICA JONGDivorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
ERICA JONGWe are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
ERICA JONGBecause I loved myself, I was loved.
ERICA JONGMy reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
ERICA JONGSolitude is un-American.
ERICA JONGIf sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
ERICA JONGI don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
ERICA JONGArt is always an energy exchange.
ERICA JONGAnd the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONGThe truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
ERICA JONGIt is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
ERICA JONGYoung people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
ERICA JONGIn a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
ERICA JONG