Erica Jong Quotes


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.


Citations

Jong, Erica. Fear of Flying. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973, p. 251.

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Erica Jong
Erica Jong
  • Born: March 26, 1942
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist

Erica Jong is an American novelist, satirist, 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 The Washington Post, it has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.