A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.
Erica JongMen must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes.
Erica JongSex is God's joke on the human race ... if we didn't have sex to make us ridiculous, She would have had to think up something else instead.
Erica JongThe 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