Best Erica Jong Wisdom
- Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society. Equal
- I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's… Been
- The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to… Among
- There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is… Battlefield
- What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and… All
- When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes… All
- When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen… Able
- Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want… Hurt
- 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 it's… Art
- I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. Ceased
- Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over… All
- I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it. According
- My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes,… Film
- Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about… Brave
- The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to… Any
- Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself. Easily
- I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to… Able
- Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life. All
- I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are… Bergman
- The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin,… Anais
- The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did. Die
- Anger is really disappointed hope. Anger
- I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are… Always Reflected
- It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do… Despair
- Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said. Asked
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