Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Generations of women have sacrificed their lives to become their mothers. But we do not have that luxury any more. The world… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction. — 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
I was surprised by my daughter's generation and how they were rebelling against the '70s idea that sex was perfect and it… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation?… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion. — 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 Image
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 Image
Give advice to your children while they're young enough to believe you know what you're talking about. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
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 Image
Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
