652 Quotes by Erica Jong

From Roman times to the present, Italy has been a country to fall in love with – a tribute to all that is enduring, crazy, pagan, joyous, melancholy, at once banal and divine, in the human spirit.

When you start having lunch and actually eating, it’s already over.

Love is serene and calm.

You go through life looking for a teacher and then when you find him, you become so dependent on him that you grow to hate him. Or else you wait for him to show his weakness and then you despise him for being human.

Blush like you mean it.

Never follow a dog act. You know you’re on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life.

I’m interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there’s still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.

Human beings are naturally hierarchical beasts. Democracy is not their native religion.

Men have always detested women’s gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.