Erica Jong Quotes


We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion. - Erica Jong


We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep. - Erica Jong


To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives. - Erica Jong


There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. - Erica Jong


There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship /only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier. - Erica Jong


There are two times when a man doesn't understand a woman - before marriage and after marriage. - Erica Jong


The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. - Erica Jong


The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel. - Erica Jong


The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise. - Erica Jong


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