Erica Jong

My grandchildren are fabulous and funny. ”

I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore. ”

Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people. ”

People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas. ”

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not? ”

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it. ”

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. ”

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper. ”

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with. ”

There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge. ”