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
All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
When you start having lunch and actually eating, it's already over.
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.
It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh.
As a seasoned insomniac, I knew sometimes the way to beat sleeplessness was to outwit it: to pretend you didn't care about sleeping. Then sometimes sleep became piqued, like a rejected lover, and crept up to try to seduce you.
Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.
I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world...
A wet dream in the mind of New York.