Want Quotes by Erica Jong

And what if I don't want forgiveness?

— Erica Jong

Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.

— Erica Jong

“Did I want to dance? Of course I did and that's not all.”

— Erica Jong

“You want to be a poet and not die.”

— Erica Jong

Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?

— Erica Jong

I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.

— Erica Jong

Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.

— Erica Jong

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

— Erica Jong

As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem…

— Erica Jong

I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be…

— Erica Jong

Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful…

— Erica Jong

Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a…

— Erica Jong

I think a lot of people, when they read about a woman who acknowledges her sexuality and her feelings, get really scared.…

— Erica Jong

Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others.…

— Erica Jong

My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the…

— Erica Jong

You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to…

— Erica Jong

Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good,…

— Erica Jong

I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight…

— Erica Jong

Feminism is really the right of women to be full human beings and to not be defined only by their childbearing function.…

— Erica Jong

Generations of women have sacrificed their lives to become their mothers. But we do not have that luxury any more. The world…

— Erica Jong