652 Quotes by Erica Jong

of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.

It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.

There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh.

Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.

I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.

As a seasoned insomniac, I knew sometimes the way to beat sleeplessness was to outwit it: to pretend you didn't care about sleeping. Then sometimes sleep became piqued, like a rejected lover, and crept up to try to seduce you.

The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.

Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?

I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.