652 Quotes by Erica Jong

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.

The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.

Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”

When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it’s a wonderful way to spend one’s life.

It’s impossible to generalize about sexuality – even one’s own. The only way to keep it pure is to keep it unspoken. Keep it out of words. Words are not where sexuality lives. Without privacy, there is no ecstasy.

You must be very specific in your wishes or they’ll come back to haunt you.

Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down – revising and embellishing as I go. I’m always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.

As yet we use our media only for selling things – including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?

I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I’m not observant, and I don’t belong to a synagogue. I don’t go to temple on high holy days, but I’m proud to be Jewish.