we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.
Erica JongPregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.
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