Erica Jong Quotes

Dancing is like fucking... it doesn't matter how you look - just concentrate on how you feel.

I'm just trying to lead my own fucking life if I can manage to find it in all this confusion.

Sexism is somewhat better hidden now-though it is far from eradicated.

Betrayal does that -- betrays the betrayer.

The zipless fuck is absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives. There is no power game. The man is not "taking" and the woman is not "giving." No one is attempting to cuckold a husband or humiliate a wife. No one is trying to prove anything or get anything out of anyone. The zipless fuck is the purest thing there is. And it is rarer than the unicorn. And I have never had one.

Inevitably, I drank too much, talked too much, smiled too hard, swallowed back too much bile.

Photographs... are the most curious indicators of reality.

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

Hate generalizes; love is particular.

Sheer bitchiness can be a sort of style.

Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.

I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.

It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.

Because I loved myself, I was loved.

I have had the experience of having my sister get up at a meeting at Columbia University, where these scholars from all over the world were anointing Fear of Flying as a classic. And my sister got up and said, "Erica Jong has ruined my life — with her books."