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
Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
The soul is awakened through service.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
I hope we don't have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion. The parity of women's health. It's very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.
Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates (470-399 B.C.) "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't
Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.