Erica Jong Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“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.”

“I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on.”

“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 a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.”

“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.”

“I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.”

“I remember everything but forgive anyway.”

“Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.”

“The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”

“Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.”

“Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?”