Erica Jong World Quotations

I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.

As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.

I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world...

Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world.

In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.

Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish?

Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.