652 Quotes by Erica Jong

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world.

Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.

I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.

I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.

I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.

Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.