Top 78 Quotes by Erica Jong

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.

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.

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.

People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.

I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity.