Quotes by Jong, Erica

Oh Doris Lessing, my dear -- your Anna is wrong about orgasms. They ar >>

Men and women, women and men; it will never work. >>

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. >>

Quotations about Names

How could I have been anything else but what I am, having been named M >>

I don't like your miserable lonely single front name. It is so limited >>

If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, le >>

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.

Jong, Erica