I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
Erica JongTo 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 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 JongYoung people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.
Erica Jong