Erica Jong Quotes

There are some men who, in a spirit of arrogance, think they are superior to women. They do not seem to realize that they would not exist but for the mother who gave them birth. When they assert their superiority they demean her.

How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?

I don't think women are dumb.

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she couldn't talk a girl out of it, she just never had anything more to do with her for the four years she was there.

I think a lot of women are underestimated.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

Women are unfit for parliament and parliament is unfit for them.

a nation would not profit under a woman as its leader

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

We are not going back to where being a woman was a preexisting medical condition.

The CAA says that women are psychologically not fitted to be pilots, but I see pictures every now and then of women who are teaching men to fly. We know that in England, where the need is great, women are ferrying planes and freeing innumerable men for combat service.

There's plenty of talented women. Why do men take over the important positions? It's simple. Love, family, children - a woman doesn't want to sacrifice all of that.

Politics wasn't a traditional course for a woman.

There's no prize for being the best woman.

Women are capable of accomplishing just as much as men are but aren't always given the same attention and opportunity.

We need to put an end to discrimination against women, and the power to bring about this change lies in our hands.

I think it's an uphill battle in every field. You hear late-night comedy is hard on women. And then you hear investment banking is hard on women. And tech is hard on women. And then you start digging, and you learn philosophy departments are hard on women!

I remember my grandfather believed women were second-class citizens and told my mother that it was a shame she had brains because she was a girl and shouldn't carry on her education.

I never considered myself less worthy than a man in football. Never. Never, never, never.

It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.

Since a very young age, my mother made sure to tell me about the plight of women... As she raised my awareness about women's issues, she also made sure to ingrain in me the importance of being strong and independent and not to let anybody define me by their images of what women should be.