Erica Jong Quotes

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for being brave for risking everything for. And the trouble is if you don't risk everything you risk even more.

Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.

I was afraid to write Fear of Flying ergo I had to write it. I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it then I must do it.

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

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

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.