Erica Jong Generations Quotations

That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.

Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?

Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.