Quotes by Jong, Erica

Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your >>

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent >>

Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spe >>

Quotations about Orgasm

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the imag >>

I may not be a great actress but I've become the greatest at screen or >>

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. E >>

Oh Doris Lessing, my dear -- your Anna is wrong about orgasms. They are no proof of love -- any more than that other Anna's fall under the wheels of that Russian train was a proof of love. It's all female shenanigans, cultural mishegoss, conditioning, brainwashing, male mythologizing. What does a woman want? She wants what she has been told she ought to want. Anna Wulf wants orgasm, Anna Karenina, death. Orgasm is no proof of anything. Orgasm is proof of orgasm. Someday every woman will have orgasms -- like every family has color TV -- and we can all get on with the real business of life.

Jong, Erica