Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. – Erica Jong
I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching – but that wont pay the Bergdorfs bill. I think Ill move to somewhere life is cheaper. – Erica Jong
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. – Erica Jong
Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting Hiawatha and they groan. – Erica Jong