Quotes from Erica Jong
We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
- Erica Jong
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
- Erica Jong
Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Erica Jong
Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.
- Erica Jong
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
- 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. They don't want to hurt people.
- Erica Jong
I think we're [men and women] more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.
- Erica Jong
I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
- Erica Jong
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 not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
- Erica Jong
Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
- Erica Jong
I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
- Erica Jong
Perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
- Erica Jong