Quotes by : Erica Jong

Tears are a form of communication - like speech - and require a listener.

I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is....

It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.

Why are women so ungenerous to other women? Is it because we have been tokens for so long? Or is there....

I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite....

...readers who think I have answers when all I have are a few pointed questions...

Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems....

Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when....

In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express....

When women have so absorbed the disease of sexism that they themselves can inflict it on each other,....