Erica Jong Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.

  Erica Jong

  Sex, Home, Long

• Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.

  Erica Jong

  Home, Writing, Reality

• we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.

  Erica Jong

  Family, Home, Heart

  Erica Jong (1981). “Fanny”

• Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.

  Erica Jong

  Home, House, Degrees

  Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.162, Penguin

• O what is it about having one's own Babe upon one's Hip that makes a Woman wish to go home to her Mother? A Desire to say: 'Look, the Circle is compleat'? A Desire to say: 'Look, I have cross'd the Divide and now am more like you'? A Desire to say: 'Look, this Babe I offer you is my most precious Gift'?

  Erica Jong

  Mother, Home, Circles

• When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.

  Erica Jong

  Mother, Husband, Home

• Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women's issues" and learn that they are everyone's issues - essential to survival on planet Earth.

  Erica Jong

  Home, Learning, Men

• Home is where your books are.

  Erica Jong

  Book, Home

  Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.165, Penguin

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