Erica Jong is an American author and teacher. Her birth name was Erica Weisman.
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“Beware of the man who denounces women writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.”
Erica Jong
“Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.”
“Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.”
“Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world”
“Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed”
“Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.”
“Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.”
“Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.”
“I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.”
“If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.”