652 Quotes by Erica Jong

Solitude is considered un-American.

It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.

Images are ... a kind of emotional shorthand.

perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.

Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."

It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.

As women, we can't look old. We can't be fat. We're supposed to look like the 14-year-old models in Vogue, who are younger and younger and skinnier and skinnier, and they are air-brushed and contoured and Photoshopped.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.