Quotes from Erica Jong

I have accepted fear as part of life — specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid. They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild -- and what happened? The men wilted

My reaction to porn films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first 20 minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: Their measurements are being taken and compared.

My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.

Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

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. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.