“women are the only group in history to be idealized into powerlessness” — erica jong Copy Share Image
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“These bits speak history's tattered tale. How we cling to scraps, shards, sea glass- because we cannot stay.” — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“All this mundane: merely the ordinary experience of my whiplash generation. Caught between our mothers (who stayed home) and the next generation… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“And the crazy part of it was even if you were clever, even if you spent your adolescence reading John Donne and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Throughout much of history, women writers have capitulated to male standards, and have paid too much heed to what Virginia Woolf calls… — 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
