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
Sexism kind of predisposes us to see men's work as more important than women's, and it is a problem, I guess, as writers, we have to change.
Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
Blaming women is always in fashion.
Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job.
Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
It was unimaginable what happens to you when you get known for a book that everybody reads, or that everybody has heard of. If the book is said to be sexy, the crazies come out of the woodwork.
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion. That reaches out to motherhood for completion.