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
Erica Jong quotes about
- divorce
- age
- generations
- getting-older
- way
- stories
- remembers-everything
- forgiving
- remember
- sexuality
- ends
- whole-life
- impossible-situations
- serious
- tools
- love-and-death
- paradox
- love-poetry
- long-distance-relationship
- mountain
- bed
- female-writers
- fiction
- lasts
- firsts
- morality
- betrayal
- betrayed
- betray
- time
We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.
I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
Sex just as a drive, as a hormonal drive, is not very interesting.
Most sex is not really intimate.
Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
As women, we can't look old. We can't be fat. We're supposed to look like the 14-year-old models in Vogue, who are younger and younger and skinnier and skinnier, and they are air-brushed and contoured and Photoshopped.
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
I don't think there's just one person for everyone. It would be very hard for me to be with a guy who was not bright or funny. And he'd have to see the absurdities of the world, not exactly as I see them necessarily.
In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love.