652 Quotes by Erica Jong

The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.

Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be

I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.

Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.

Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.

We all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.

Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.

Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.