652 Quotes by Erica Jong

We came to realize how little married couples see of each other once they crawl in the bourgeois box.

It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.

People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line. There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.

I think men have always been afraid of women’s sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.

Nothing human was worth denying. Even if it was unspeakably ugly, we could learn from it, couldn’t we? Or could we? I never questioned that at all.

I don’t necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I’m trying to finish.

What I discovered was is that it’s rare to find a person that you feel very intimate with, and you can sleep with lots of people and not find what you’re looking for.

I’ve kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it’s boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.

I think I’ve become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don’t think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.