--- title: "4 Censorship Quotes By Erica Jong" description: "4 Censorship quotes by Erica Jong. Plus more from Erica Jong and more Censorship sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/679/erica-jong-445_book_a-dreary-censorship-and-self-censorship_1001978.jpg" --- > [A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/a-dreary-censorship-and-self-censorship-has-been-imposed-on-books-by/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/679/erica-jong-445_book_a-dreary-censorship-and-self-censorship_1001978.jpg) > [I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/i-am-against-censorship-i-prefer-the-chaos-of-uncontrollable/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae4/erica-jong-445_censorship_i-am-against-censorship-i-prefer-the-cha_1344063.jpg) > [If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/if-we-ban-whatever-offends-any-group-in-our-diverse-society-we-will/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a5/erica-jong-445_art_if-we-ban-whatever-offends-any-group-in_3200842.jpg) > [A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/a-concern-with-public-morality-is-if-not-the-last-refuge-of-a/) [Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e4/erica-jong-445_censorship_a-concern-with-public-morality-is-if-not_3212673.jpg) ## Other authors on Censorship - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-ray-bradbury-77494.jpg) Ray Bradbury 15 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/censorship/ray-bradbury/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-salman-rushdie-82434.jpg) Salman Rushdie 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/censorship/salman-rushdie/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-judy-blume-54057.jpg) Judy Blume 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/censorship/judy-blume/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rebecca-mackinnon-77802.jpg) Rebecca MacKinnon 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/censorship/rebecca-mackinnon/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-george-bernard-shaw-68.jpg) George Bernard Shaw 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/censorship/george-bernard-shaw/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-orwell-37887.jpg) George Orwell 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/censorship/george-orwell/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-g-r-reader-31875.jpg) G.R. Reader 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/censorship/g-r-reader/) - [Oliver Markus Malloy 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/censorship/oliver-markus-malloy/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-o-douglas-95752.jpg) William O. Douglas 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/censorship/william-o-douglas/) - [Mark Twain 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/censorship/mark-twain/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-julian-assange-54221.jpg) Julian Assange 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/censorship/julian-assange/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-suzy-kassem-596.jpg) Suzy Kassem 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/censorship/suzy-kassem/) ## 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/censorship/erica-jong/#itemlist", "name": "4 Censorship Quotes By Erica Jong", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Erica Jong" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/a-dreary-censorship-and-self-censorship-has-been-imposed-on-books-by/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/679/erica-jong-445_book_a-dreary-censorship-and-self-censorship_1001978.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/679/erica-jong-445_book_a-dreary-censorship-and-self-censorship_1001978.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/679/erica-jong-445_book_a-dreary-censorship-and-self-censorship_1001978.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book…” — Erica Jong", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I am against censorship. 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