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Danh ngôn của Erica Jong (Sứ mệnh: 1)

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Solitude is un-American.
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving.
I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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.
Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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.
Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.