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
writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.
A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
Courage is the only Magic worth having.
Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world.
We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.
Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women's issues" and learn that they are everyone's issues - essential to survival on planet Earth.
it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not yet exist, they must also create their audience. Sometimes the audience is not yet ready. Sometimes it has yet to be born.
Is perception equivalent to existence?
Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.