Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember? — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people, when they read about a woman who acknowledges her sexuality and her feelings, get really scared.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good,… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Feminism is really the right of women to be full human beings and to not be defined only by their childbearing function.… — 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
“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
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
Give advice to your children while they're young enough to believe you know what you're talking about. — Erica Jong Copy Share
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. — Erica Jong Copy Share
I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it. — Erica Jong Copy Share
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
“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
The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em. — Erica Jong Copy Share
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
Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart. — Erica Jong Copy Share
