Erica Jong

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways…

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not…

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our…

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching – but that won’t pay…

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had…

I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I…

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see…

Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life – when…

When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I…

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness…

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be…

My grandchildren are fabulous and funny…

Men and women, women and men. It will never work…

There is still the feeling that women’s writing is a lesser class of writing, that…

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society…