652 Quotes by Erica Jong

Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?

When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.

Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.

Loving someone is a loss of freedom -- but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.

When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.

What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?

Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.

Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.