Erica Jong is an American author and teacher. Her birth name was Erica Weisman.
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“Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.”
Erica Jong
“Men and women, women and men, It will never work.”
“I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged . . . I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.”
“My reaction to porno films is as follows; After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw, After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live”
“Surviving meant being born over and over.”
“If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”
Contributed by: George Lewis
“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”
“We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion”
“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.”
“Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.”