Erica Jong

Birth: 1942-03-26 , Nova Iorque

Erica Mann Jong is an American writer and novelist, known for her novels that explore female sexuality, independence, and the complexities of relationships. Her most famous work, "Fear of Flying", published in 1973, caused controversy and commercial success by depicting a woman's sexual life with unusual frankness for the time. Jong is an important figure in feminist literature.

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Coupling doesn’t always have to do with sex. . . . Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

The zipless fuck is absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives. There is no power game. The man is not “taking” and the woman is not “giving.” No one is attempting to cuckold a husband or humiliate a wife. No one is out to prove anything or get anything out of anyone. The zipless fuck is the purest thing there is. And it is rarer than the unicorn.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Fear of Flying.

There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh.

Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?

I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?

Charlie had that defensive contempt for homosexuals which people often have when their own sexuality is an embarrassment to them.

I knew I was in England by the smell.

It was not clear how it would end. In nineteenth- century novels, they get married. In twentieth-century novels, they get divorced. Can you have an ending in which they do neither?

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Erica Jong was born in New York. She graduated from Barnard College and obtained a master's degree in English literature from Columbia University. She began her career writing poetry, publishing her first book of poems, "Fruits & Vegetables", in 1971. Her debut novel, "Fear of Flying", was a bestseller and catapulted her to fame, making her an icon of the second wave of feminism. Jong continued to write novels, including "How to Save Your Own Life", "The Golden Fleece", and "Witches". In addition to fiction, she has also written essays, memoirs, and children's books. Her work frequently addresses themes of sexual freedom, female identity, and the search for self-acceptance. Erica Jong remains active as a writer and commentator, maintaining her influential voice in contemporary literature.