You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.- Erica Jong
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
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.
The trouble is, if you do not risk anything, you risk even more.
The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Solitude is un-American.
Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I will show you a man.
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
