Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.
Erica JongPoetry 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.
Erica JongYoung people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.
Erica JongCoupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
Erica Jong