652 Quotes by Erica Jong

I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.

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 the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid - as if we'd disabled them utterly. Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?

Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes.

I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.

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