Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
Erica Jong
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.
Erica Jong
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had...
Erica Jong
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.