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
Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion.… — 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
“You’re not a secretary; you’re a poet. What makes you think your life is going to be uncomplicated? What makes you think… — 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
“Young women dream of romance and passion as men dream of conquest because those dreams are necessary goads to leaving home 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 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
