“ The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.… Erica Jong
“ I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. Erica Jong
“ Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking e… Erica Jong
“ Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they… Erica Jong
“ No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. Erica Jong
“ Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. Erica Jong
“ Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly. Erica Jong
“ Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong
“ Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart. Erica Jong
“ 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… Erica Jong
“ You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. Erica Jong
