Erica Jong
Erica Jong
Erica Jongis an American novelist and poet, known particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying. The book became famously controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. According to Washington Post, it has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 March 1942
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops - in general, doing everything men do.
As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid - as if we'd disabled them utterly. Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes.
Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world.
what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.
Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.
You're not too fat; you're just in the wrong country.
If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.
I'm very dependant. I fall apart regularly.