Erica Jong Quotes about Home

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Home is where your books are.

Erica Jong

Book, Home

Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.165, Penguin

My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.

Erica Jong

Sex, Home, Long

Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.

Erica Jong

Home, Writing, Reality

we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.

Erica Jong

Family, Home, Heart

Erica Jong (1981). “Fanny”

When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.

Erica Jong

Mother, Husband, Home

O what is it about having one's own Babe upon one's Hip that makes a Woman wish to go home to her Mother? A Desire to say: 'Look, the Circle is compleat'? A Desire to say: 'Look, I have cross'd the Divide and now am more like you'? A Desire to say: 'Look, this Babe I offer you is my most precious Gift'?

Erica Jong

Mother, Home, Circles

Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.

Erica Jong

Home, House, Degrees

Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.162, Penguin

Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women's issues" and learn that they are everyone's issues - essential to survival on planet Earth.

Erica Jong

Home, Learning, Men

Erica Jong Quotes about Home

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