Erica Jong

Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

The ultimate sexist put-down: the prick which lies down on the job.

Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love...

Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.

Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.