Quotes from Erica Jong
Whoever pushes America's sex button must be prepared for sirens and alarms. Whatever else we do in our lives will be drowned out by them.
- Erica Jong
I am nailed to the cross of my imagination.
- Erica Jong
But at the bottom of all the gloom, there is a sense that we are responsible for each other -- if not for each other's happiness. There is empathy, admiration, respect for the other's intelligence and honesty.
- Erica Jong
Maybe she will make our wishes come true before we burn her.
- Erica Jong
I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
- Erica Jong
This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
- Erica Jong
The sexuality doesn't end. It really doesn't. You're sexual your whole life, if you're a sexual person.
- Erica Jong
I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
- Erica Jong
I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
- Erica Jong
Surviving means being born over and over.
- Erica Jong
You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.
- Erica Jong
I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
- Erica Jong