--- title: "4 Baby boomers Quotes By Erica Jong" description: "4 Baby boomers quotes by Erica Jong. Plus more from Erica Jong and more Baby boomers sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fae/erica-jong-445_baby-boomers_all-this-mundane-merely-the-ordinary-exp_169840.jpg" --- > [“All this mundane: merely the ordinary experience of my whiplash generation. Caught between our mothers (who stayed home) and the next generation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/all-this-mundane-merely-the-ordinary-experience-of-my-whiplash/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fae/erica-jong-445_baby-boomers_all-this-mundane-merely-the-ordinary-exp_169840.jpg) > [“Whatever science has done to destroy the world, it has unquestionably saved the lives of women and their babies. Nature is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/whatever-science-has-done-to-destroy-the-world-it-has-unquestionably/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13d/erica-jong-445_baby-boom_whatever-science-has-done-to-destroy-the_699826.jpg) > [“My generation grew up with an imposed myth: the myth of happily ever after -- (and makes you do the same). Whether…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/my-generation-grew-up-with-an-imposed-myth-the-myth-of-happily-ever/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09c/erica-jong-445_baby-boomers_my-generation-grew-up-with-an-imposed-my_1729084.jpg) > [“Sometimes it seems both our kids and our parents were smarter than we were. We fell somewhere between our parents' thirties idealism…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/sometimes-it-seems-both-our-kids-and-our-parents-were-smarter-than-we/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9e/erica-jong-445_baby-boomers_sometimes-it-seems-both-our-kids-and-our_1840198.jpg) ## More by Erica Jong > [“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/it-took-me-years-to-learn-to-sit-at-my-desk-for-more-than-two-minutes/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/will-you-ever-i-dont-think-you-will-ever-fully-understand-how-you-ve/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [Give advice to your children while they're young enough to believe you know what you're talking about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/give-advice-to-your-children-while-they-re-young-enough-to-believe/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/perhaps-all-artists-were-in-a-sense-housewives-tenders-of-the-earth/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/i-have-lived-my-life-according-to-this-principle-if-i-m-afraid-of-it/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/i-thought-to-spend-my-declining-years-writing-poetry-and-teaching-but/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [“Naomi Wolf dares to explode the myth of 'victim feminism' and pleads for allowing women to be as full of good and bad desires…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/naomi-wolf-dares-to-explode-the-myth-of-victim-feminism-and-pleads/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [I knew I was in England by the smell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/i-knew-i-was-in-england-by-the-smell/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/the-lives-of-great-men-are-more-oft-at-variance-with-their-profess-d/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/women-s-books-are-kind-of-discriminated-against-if-a-man-writes-a/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/many-many-people-have-done-a-lot-more-sexual-experimentation-than-i/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [“Is life much too long for an immortal?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/is-life-much-too-long-for-an-immortal/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/don-t-ye-know-that-ev-ry-soul-on-earth-feels-itself-to-be-an-orphan/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/critics-write-out-of-intellectual-exercise-not-poets-poets-write/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) > [Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/once-i-worshipped-keats-for-dying-young-now-i-think-it-s-braver-to/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/baby-boomers/erica-jong/#itemlist", "name": "4 Baby boomers Quotes By Erica Jong", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“All this mundane: merely the ordinary experience of my whiplash generation. 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