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
It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
I remember everything but forgive anyway.
Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.