Quote

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.

Erica Jong

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Mountains
Miles
Chosen
Bed
Distance
Mountain
Away
Long
Chastity

More quotes by Erica Jong

Image
Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
Erica Jong
Image
We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
Erica Jong
Image
in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.
Erica Jong
Image
Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
Erica Jong
Image
Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
Erica Jong
Image
When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
Erica Jong
Image
Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
Erica Jong
Image
Most sex is not really intimate.
Erica Jong
Image
Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
Erica Jong
Image
Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
Erica Jong
Image
Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
Erica Jong
Image
Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
Erica Jong
Image
It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
Erica Jong
Image
We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
Erica Jong
Image
Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
Erica Jong
Image
Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
Erica Jong
Image
You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
Erica Jong
Image
Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
Erica Jong
Image
Love is everything it's cracked up to be
Erica Jong
Image
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