652 Quotes by Erica Jong

Is perception equivalent to existence?

A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother-how reading goes out the window and thinking too.

And what if I don't want forgiveness?

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

I knew I was in England by the smell.

I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.

Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.

Keeping a journal implies hope.