Quote

It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.

Erica Jong

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Concern
Concerns
Poetry
Paradox
Fiction
Cosmic
Women
Dealing
Writing
Male
Males
Majors
Impersonate
Major
Authors

More quotes by Erica Jong

Image
Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
Erica Jong
Image
It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
Erica Jong
Image
Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
Erica Jong
Image
In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
Erica Jong
Image
All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
Erica Jong
Image
When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
Erica Jong
Image
You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
Erica Jong
Image
I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
Erica Jong
Image
People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.
Erica Jong
Image
The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
Erica Jong
Image
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
Erica Jong
Image
Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
Erica Jong
Image
The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
Erica Jong
Image
This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
Erica Jong
Image
what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
Erica Jong
Image
Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
Erica Jong
Image
Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
Erica Jong
Image
Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
Erica Jong
Image
As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
Erica Jong
Image
I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
Erica Jong