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
Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
the only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.
The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
I look forward and see myself look back.
Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.
It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.
You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.
Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.