652 Quotes by Erica Jong

Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.

Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.

What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.

Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love...

The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.

fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.

When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.

Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.