Erica Jong Quotes About Identity

Quotes about: Identity

• Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.

  Erica Jong

  Memories, Humanity, Identity

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.52, Penguin

• 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.

  Erica Jong

  Men, Identity, Needs

• To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.

  Erica Jong

  Husband, Names, Wife

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 16, 2012

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