Erica Mann Jong Quotations

What all the ads and all the whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair, your boobs, your eyelashes, your armpits, your crotch, your stars, your scars, and your choice of Scotch in bars--you would meet a beautiful, powerful, potent, and rich man who would satisfy every longing, fill every hole, make your heart skip a beat (or stand still), make you misty, and fly you to the moon (preferably on gossamer wings), where you would live totally satisfied forever.

When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love

Life has no plot. It is far more interesting than anything you can say about it because language, by its very nature, orders things and life really has no order.

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.

Will you ever? I dont think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am.I don't think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star.

Beware of the man who denounces women writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Your morals are like roads through the Alps. They make these hairpin turns all the time.

It made it acceptable for women to seek pleasure, married or not,

Nothing said or done there should morally count. Everyone is exhausted.

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame.

I know some good marriages - marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as part of life specifically fear of change and fear of the unknown;and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says, turn back, turn back,you'll die if you venture too far.

The job of the writer is to seduce the demons of creativity and make up stories. Often you go to bed with a man who claims to be a demon and later you find out he's just an everyday slob.