Erica Jong Quotes

We live in a culture that does not encourage women to be epic heroes of their own Big Stories but the mothers and lovers and wives and mistresses and muses and personal assistants, the femme fatales and fantasies and manic pixie dream girls, in someone else's Big Story, and this someone else is usually a dude.

Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.

Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

'Little Women' has interesting gender connotations. There are generations of women who love the book. But there are a lot of men who think it's sentimental, gooey stuff.

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.

Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.

I realized early on that I always hated girls who used their femininity to get what they wanted.

I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.