Who is Erica Jong

Erica Jong (née Mann; born March 26, 1942) 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.

Early life and education

Jong was born on March 26, 1942. She is one of three daughters of Seymour Mann (died 2004), and Eda Mirsky (1911–2012). Her father was a businessman of Polish Jewish ancestry who owned a gifts and home accessories company known for its mass production of porcelain dolls. Her mother was born in England of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, and was a painter and textile...
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Erica Jong Poems

• The Long Tunnel Of Wanting You
  This is the long tunnel of wanting you.
  Its walls are lined with remembered kisses
  wet & red as the inside of your mouth,
  full & juicy as your probing tongue, ...
• For Howard Moss
  Already six years past your age!
  The steps in Rome,
  the house near Hampstead Heath,
  & all your fears ...
• Anti-matter
  I am not interested
  in my body-
  the part that stinks
  & rots & brings forth ...
• The Catch
  You take me to the restaurant where one
  plays God over a fish tank. The fat trout
  pace their green cage, waiting to be taken
  out of an element. Who knows what they know? ...
• For All Those Who Died
  For all those who died-
  stripped naked, shaved, shorn.
  
  For all those who screamed ...

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Erica Jong Quotes

• Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
• A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
• Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
• Take your life in your own hands and what happens A terrible thing no one to blame.
• Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

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