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
The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
Home is where your books are.
the only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.
Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We simultaneously possess the most primitive of brain stems and the most sophisticated of cortices. The imperatives of each coexist uneasily.
And what if I don't want forgiveness?
Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
A man assumes that a woman's refusal is just part of a game. Or, at any rate, a lot of men assume that. When a man says no, it's no. When a woman says no, it's yes, or at least maybe. There is even a joke to that effect. And little by little, women begin to believe in this view of themselves.