Erica Jong Quotes About Sexuality

Quotes about: Sexuality

• I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they've always reflected it in their art. End of story.

  Erica Jong

  Art, People, Doe

  "Free-Associating with Erica Jong". Interview with Robin Epstain. Lilith magazine, www.lilith.org. Fall 1995.

• Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid... They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild - and what happened? The men wilted.

  Erica Jong

  Women, Pregnancy, Taken

  "Fear of Flying". Book by Erica Jong, 1973.

• I think a lot of people, when they read about a woman who acknowledges her sexuality and her feelings, get really scared. They say they want to be fearless, but in reality they're terrified. If they acknowledge their deepest feelings, they might have to change their lives.

  Erica Jong

  Thinking, Reality, People

  "Erica Jong is back - as fearless as ever". Interview with Carole Burns, www.washingtonpost.com. September 08, 2015.

• The sexuality doesn't end. It really doesn't. You're sexual your whole life, if you're a sexual person.

  Erica Jong

  Sexuality, Ends, Whole Life

  Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.

• I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.

  Erica Jong

  Men, Thinking, Sexuality

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