Erica Jong Quotes

I never say 'nagging.' I think that 'nagging' is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But, it's a trap that we've created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it's a term men created.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

It seems a lot of straight men need a word coach or a lawyer when it comes to discussing 'Sex and the City.'

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

While Muslim men describe themselves as insecure in their harems, real or imagined, Westerners describe themselves as self-assured heroes with no fears of women. The tragic dimension so present in Muslim harems - fear of women and male self-doubt - is missing in the Western harem.

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

Men that aren't threatened by opinionated, faintly aggressive women are in a minority.

For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman's intelligence was a man's deception.

Being a sex symbol had its advantages. You got to meet a lot of interesting people, and men especially. It was a man's world in those days, and I had a lot of luck with men.

The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

Men often still expect women to be under their thumb.

For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.

There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.