652 Quotes by Erica Jong

Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you’ll never write a line.

Is love freedom or is it bondage?

I have ne’er been in a chamber with a lawyer when I did not wish either to scream with desperation or else fall into the deepest of sleeps, e’en when the matter concern’d my own future most profoundly.

Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life – when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.

We don’t have a clear path forward, and that’s been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.

That’s what a writer is – a conqueror of fears.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.

Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?