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
I've never been able to control my public image.
I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity.
The sexuality doesn't end. It really doesn't. You're sexual your whole life, if you're a sexual person.
I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.
Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world.
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
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.