652 Quotes by Erica Jong

is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

Photographs... are the most curious indicators of reality.

Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.

When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.

How could one create life with someone who represented death?

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.