Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.
Erica JongMemory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
Erica JongWriting is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
Erica JongIs there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish?
Erica JongWe've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
Erica Jong