Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pre...
ERICA JONG Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.
ERICA JONG There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. Y...
ERICA JONG In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years...
ERICA JONG Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the cpourage to follow the talent to the dark places where it...
ERICA JONG Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it le...
ERICA JONG You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dum...
ERICA JONG Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. T...
ERICA JONG Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. ...
ERICA JONG There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love
ERICA JONG The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecr...
ERICA JONG I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despit...
ERICA JONG Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
ERICA JONG Men and women, women and men; it will never work.
ERICA JONG To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right...
ERICA JONG Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, lov...
ERICA JONG Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
ERICA JONG Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vaca...
ERICA JONG Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
ERICA JONG Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being...
ERICA JONG Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
ERICA JONG My reaction to porn films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. A...
ERICA JONG Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. Am...
ERICA JONG Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
ERICA JONG No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderfu...
ERICA JONG Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame.
ERICA JONG Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything that it's cracked up to b...
ERICA JONG Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
ERICA JONG Oh Doris Lessing, my dear -- your Anna is wrong about orgasms. They are no proof of love -- any more...
ERICA JONG I can live without it all -- love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their pe...
ERICA JONG Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying ...
ERICA JONG If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it
ERICA JONG Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
ERICA JONG Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it lea...
ERICA JONG Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talen...
ERICA JONG And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk more. -Erica Jong.
ERICA JONG Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with th...
ERICA JONG I tried to keep myself away from him by using con words like "fidelity" and "adultery", by telling m...
ERICA JONG What all the ads and all the whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic eno...
ERICA JONG If you don't risk anything you risk even more.
ERICA JONG My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to ...
ERICA JONG We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies,...
ERICA JONG Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
ERICA JONG When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they w...
ERICA JONG Solitude is un-American.
ERICA JONG Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywoo...
ERICA JONG Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.
ERICA JONG People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don&#...
ERICA JONG We drove to the hotel and said goodbye. How hypocritical to go upstairs with a man you don't want to...
ERICA JONG The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must su...
ERICA JONG Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are b...
ERICA JONG Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pre...
ERICA JONG Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
ERICA JONG Will you ever? I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me ...
ERICA JONG Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. Th...
ERICA JONG My reaction to porno films is as follows; After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw, ...
ERICA JONG A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passiv...
ERICA JONG The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life i...
ERICA JONG Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
ERICA JONG Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it le...
ERICA JONG And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONG Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking ...
ERICA JONG There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhap...
ERICA JONG Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for ...
ERICA JONG Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty, and I'll show you a man.
ERICA JONG Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
ERICA JONG And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONG Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed
ERICA JONG It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
ERICA JONG The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think...
ERICA JONG What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from th...
ERICA JONG Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to ...
ERICA JONG Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the ve...
ERICA JONG We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion
ERICA JONG In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years...
ERICA JONG Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If th...
ERICA JONG Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm tal...
ERICA JONG In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can e...
ERICA JONG Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame.
ERICA JONG Life has no plot. It is far more interesting than anything you can say about it because language, by...
ERICA JONG When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they ...
ERICA JONG The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
ERICA JONG I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as p...
ERICA JONG I can live without it all / love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their pea...
ERICA JONG It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
ERICA JONG Fear of Flying
ERICA JONG In my view, everything was indeed about her. His romancing me was about her, his conversation about ...
ERICA JONG Surviving meant being born over and over.
ERICA JONG Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.
ERICA JONG The ultimate sexist put-down: the prick which lies down on the job. The ultimate weapon in the war b...
ERICA JONG We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
ERICA JONG It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up wi...
ERICA JONG As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have...
ERICA JONG I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be ju...
ERICA JONG If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONG There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship /only backward. Yo...
ERICA JONG Beware of the man who denounces women writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.
ERICA JONG If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead t...
ERICA JONG Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
ERICA JONG Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
ERICA JONG I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing s...
ERICA JONG Will you ever? I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me...
ERICA JONG I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despit...
ERICA JONG And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more
ERICA JONG There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implode...
ERICA JONG Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It...
ERICA JONG No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while...
ERICA JONG The bruise on the heart which at first feels incredibly tender to the slightest touch eventually tur...
ERICA JONG Men and women, women and men, It will never work.
ERICA JONG I know some good marriages - marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days b...
ERICA JONG Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
ERICA JONG Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
ERICA JONG You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
ERICA JONG Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
ERICA JONG Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indiffe...
ERICA JONG I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is someb...
ERICA JONG My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. ...
ERICA JONG I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
ERICA JONG I've never been able to control my public image.
ERICA JONG Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
ERICA JONG The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONG Because When you write about people, you inevitably offend--but if you write about animals, the evil...
ERICA JONG It was unimaginable what happens to you when you get known for a book that everybody reads, or that ...
ERICA JONG I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented...
ERICA JONG There's nothing good about being ordinary. People don't respect you for it. People run after people ...
ERICA JONG Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
ERICA JONG Every decision I have made - from changing jobs, to changing partners, to changing homes - has been ...
ERICA JONG Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories...
ERICA JONG All writing problems are psychological problems. Blocks usually stem from the fear of being judged. ...
ERICA JONG Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrif...
ERICA JONG You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything bef...
ERICA JONG There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implode...
ERICA JONG I don't think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am. I don'...
ERICA JONG I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I ...
ERICA JONG The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is...
ERICA JONG Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
ERICA JONG You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
ERICA JONG I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to t...
ERICA JONG My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
ERICA JONG And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONG If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONG The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.
ERICA JONG I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.
ERICA JONG We all need to make time for a burger once in a while.
ERICA DURANCE Book is the new cool for the txt generation
ERICA WAGNER I have never cared much for fish - it floats in the belly as much as in the pond.
ERICA EISDORFER Losing a baby is not a thing that you could ever get used to.
ERICA EISDORFER I have found that it don't really matter if you're brought up fine or rough, but that it helps to ha...
ERICA EISDORFER I felt despair. Though it seems to me now there's two kinds of it: the sort that causes a person to ...
ERICA EISDORFER You know," Marion said, "I met a woman once when I was a teenager. I knew she had gone through a lot...
ERICA BAUERMEISTER I look forward to change, but there is a part of me that absolutely dreads it.
ERICA DURANCE Don't be afraid of horizontal stripes. They're always going to be a big fashion statement. It's all ...
ERICA ARCHAMBAULT It's that nautical and pretty theme that you can see throughout the spring line.
ERICA ARCHAMBAULT I think it's all about wearing horizontal stripes in the right way. I think it's a reality that bigg...
ERICA ARCHAMBAULT Shopping for jeans can be such a pain. But these invite-only events create a party atmosphere.
ERICA ARCHAMBAULT It's not funky but a more stylish look for women, almost reminiscent of the Audrey Hepburn era. And ...
ERICA ARCHAMBAULT The stretch pant is a big and well-known segment for us. We chose the song because we wanted to crea...
ERICA ARCHAMBAULT What we wanted to do more than anything was to get people in there and into our jeans.
ERICA ARCHAMBAULT There are a lot of options with stripes.
ERICA ARCHAMBAULT Until we actually see a suit of any sort we can't comment on anything.
ERICA ABBETT We still saw the green route as the superior route. We truly believe it will have the least impact o...
ERICA ABBETT We're happy to support organizations like the YMCA that support great programs in the communities th...
ERICA ABBETT Our gas experts on site that day conducted a thorough investigation on our system. Through these inv...
ERICA ABBETT Moisture, moisture, moisture is the key to maintaining our hair. I use water-based products and try ...
ERICA ASH Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em, is a g...
ERICA EISDORFER If you're servant enough, you can shrink into the shadows, even in the bright morning sun and even i...
ERICA EISDORFER I take care of my things. After all, those of us as has few things to begin with must take care, les...
ERICA EISDORFER I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the fac...
ERICA EISDORFER My most memorable recognition story was in Venice, Italy. My fiance and I were renting a car, and I ...
ERICA CERRA I know a lot of people recognize me or know me from 'Battlestar Galactica,' but I only did a...
ERICA CERRA I tell myself I have time. But the itch forming along the back of my neck and across my shoulders sa...
ERICA CAMERON I see the glow before I see her. The orange light is so strong it’s hard to believe the house isn�...
ERICA CAMERON Holy shit. I’m a Smurf.
ERICA CAMERON It's fun to get to play a lead character that goes all the way through and drives the storyline ...
ERICA DURANCE It's been a really cool ride and a crazy year. It was not expected to be 13 episodes -- it was four ...
ERICA DURANCE They don't want to settle for the (Region III) quarterfinals,
ERICA GARCIA The only times it [a coal ash spill] has happened you've been aware of it.
ERICA TAYLOR You know the phrase ‘hard to get’?” K.T. asks.

“Yeah.”

“Forget har...
ERICA CAMERON It doesn't say anywhere how you did it, but that you did it. In the final, I dropped the clutch (ear...
ERICA ENDERS That three-pointer was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. I was in awe. I almost didn'...
ERICA WHITE It's a very touchy subject. It's unfortunately not talked about and it leads to issues with racism b...
ERICA MERCKER I loved her like a sister and we’d known each other since we were babies, but on some level, you c...
ERICA LARSEN We've been really clicking. We're all doing great, putting points up on the board.
ERICA MCKENZIE I've been wondering," Isabelle commented reflectively over dessert, "if it is foolish to make new me...
ERICA BAUERMEISTER I really wanted those free throws. They were fouling, and I knew they were going to foul. So I wante...
ERICA FARINA Reinvention is no rushed religion.
ERICA ALEX I’m not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it.
ERICA COOK I sometimes take leftover food from craft services and give away a bunch of sandwiches on my way hom...
ERICA DURANCE It hurts and I apologize to the fans and everyone who supports us and the coaches and my teammates f...
ERICA WHITE You could see it in Kentucky's body language. When we start to execute, you can see it on their face...
ERICA WHITE They weren't guarding me to begin with and when I cut they really lost me. I made it a point to get ...
ERICA WHITE As good as this feels, we're not done yet.
ERICA WHITE Coach didn't want us to let up. She wanted us to get that killer instinct and put them away.
ERICA WHITE It was a little bit different since I had to get things started. Usually I have to maintain things w...
ERICA WHITE One of the things we always wrestle with is trying to get parents to read to them at home. Time is a...
ERICA WHITE Consumption of risky foods declined significantly in 2002 compared to 1998. However, in the future t...
ERICA WEIS Overall, we are seeing a decline in risky food consumption, and that may be attributable to publishe...
ERICA WEIS I don?t ever think about that, because I?m the shortest post all the time. I just know what I have t...
ERICA WEHNER We have a lot of heart. We never think about losing. We figure if it?s a close game, we?re going to ...
ERICA WEHNER The effects of climate change are well-documented and clearly visible in Glacier National Park and y...
ERICA THORSON