Quotes by Erica Jong

“Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.”

“I went for years not finishing anything. Because of course when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding s...”

“If every day I dare to remember that I am here on loan that this house this hillside these minutes are all leased to me not given I will never despair.”

“There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.”

“I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.”

“And the trouble is if you don't risk anything you risk even more.”

“Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

“The soul is awakened through service.”

“I was afraid to write Fear of Flying ergo I had to write it. I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it then I must do it.”

“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. . . . It really is worth fighting for being brave for ...”

“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....”

“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....”

“the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.”

“I 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.”

“Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.”

“Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.”

“You don't have to beat a woman if you can make her feel guilty.”

“Husband and wife have no time left to spend together. Marriage took away our one reason for getting married.”

“We came to realize how little married couples see of each other once they crawl in the bourgeois box.”

“Maybe marriages are best in middle age. When all the nonsense falls away and you realize you have to love one another because you're going to die anyway.”