Erica Jong: Quotes about women

Erica Jong is Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic. Explore interesting quotes on women.
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“The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.”

Erica Jong
Women , Lovers , Thinking , Daughters

“Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.”

Erica Jong
Women , Men , Truth

“Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture…Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.”

Erica Jong book Fear of Flying

Variant: Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture... Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
Source: Fear of Flying

Women , Feeling