652 Quotes by Erica Jong

Most sex is not really intimate.

I remember everything but forgive anyway.

They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.

Why does life need evidence of life?

Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.

You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.

biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.

I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.

Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid. They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild - and what happened? The men wilted.