652 Quotes by Erica Jong

You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn’t want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.

We have let Eros mean slavery, but Eros also has the power to set us free. We must demand the right to depict women’s lives as we know them, not as we might like them to be. We must stop applying political prescriptions to creativity.

If you apologize for something that isn’t your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.

Isn’t it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn’t it every generation’s duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different – only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?

There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I’d been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh.

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.

A good woman would have given her life to the care and feeding of her husband’s madness. I was not a good woman. I had too many other things to do.

The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

Beware of the man who praises women’s liberation; he is about to quit his job.