Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women,but you hardly ever see a a smart woman with a dumb guy. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“women are the only group in history to be idealized into powerlessness” — erica jong Copy Share Image
“As long as women are denied the priesthood, we will try to make our own rituals at our own kitchen altars and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid - as if we'd disabled them utterly. Do all women… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“No wonder the word 'feminism' was feared. It had been much too narrowly defined. I define a feminist as a self-empowering woman… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Feminism is really the right of women to be full human beings and to not be defined only by their childbearing function.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“When women have so absorbed the disease of sexism that they themselves can inflict it on each other, we clearly have a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“...once becoming a mother, a woman might be radicalized in her feminism. She had a greater stake in saving the earth from… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Why are women so ungenerous to other women? Is it because we have been tokens for so long? Or is there a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
What all the ads and all the whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if only you… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Naomi Wolf dares to explode the myth of 'victim feminism' and pleads for allowing women to be as full of good and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“The ultimate sexist put-down: the prick which lies down on the job. The ultimate weapon in the war between the sexes: the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“But we [women] are only at the beginning [of revamping feminism]. And our strictures on each other prove this. Our enforcement of… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion? — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“We have let Eros mean slavery, but Eros also has the power to set us free. We must demand the right to… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share
Will you ever? I dont think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am.I don't think… — Erica Jong Copy Share
Give advice to your children while they're young enough to believe you know what you're talking about. — Erica Jong Copy Share
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. — Erica Jong Copy Share
I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it. — Erica Jong Copy Share
I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to… — Erica Jong Copy Share
“Naomi Wolf dares to explode the myth of 'victim feminism' and pleads for allowing women to be as full of good and bad desires… — Erica Jong Copy Share
The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em. — Erica Jong Copy Share
Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If… — Erica Jong Copy Share
Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart. — Erica Jong Copy Share
![“But we [women] are only at the beginning [of revamping feminism]. And our strictures on each other prove this. Our enforcement of thinness, of non-sexuality, of 'good' feminism versus 'bad' feminism, are proofs of our being at the beginning, not the end of a process. That younger feminists are…” quote by Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/473/erica-jong-445_dark-side_but-we-women-are-only-at-the-beginning-o_2945094.jpg)
