Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Erica Jong

Quote by Erica Jong

Work

Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition

A classic work of fiction that delves into the complexities of human emotions and the challenges of navigating personal relationships, particularly in the context of fear and anxiety. more

Author

Erica Jong
Erica Jong

Erica Jong is a renowned American author, born on March 26, 1942. Her works, focusing on female perspectives and sexual liberation, have gained widespread popularity. Her representative works include 'How to Be a Woman'. more

You May Also Like

“A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once again what I was before the age of twelve: a female human being who knows that a month has thirty day, not twenty-five, and who can spend every one of them free of the shackles of that defect of body and mind known as femininity.”

KnowsMindHumansBodyAgeDiesWaitingHuman BeingsKnownFiveMonthsPersonalityFemaleTwentiesPostsThirtyTwelveDefectsFemininityMind And BodyTwenty FiveShacklesOvaries
Author:Florence King
Create image

“The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her from a plump active little woman with a neatly-turned foot and ankle into something as vast and august as a natural phenomenon. She had accepted this submergence as philosohpically as all her other trials, and now, in extreme old age, was rewarded by presenting to her mirror an almost unwrinkled expanse of firm pink and white flesh, in the centre of which the traces of a small face survived as if awaiting excavation.”

IfsLittlesAgeFacesNaturalWhiteCitiesFeetMiddleChangedMirrorsExtremesActiveFleshAcceptedTrialsOld AgeFirmPhenomenonImmenseFloodDoomedSurvivedCentreAugustPresentingAnklesLittle WomenExpanseLavaNatural Phenomena
Book:Edith Wharton The Dover Reader
Create image

“Marriage I think For women Is the best of opiates. It kills the thoughts That think about the thoughts, It is the best of opiates. So said Maria. But too long in solitude she'd dwelt, And too long her thoughts had felt Their strength. So when the man drew near, Out popped her thoughts and covered him with fear. Poor Maria! Better that she had kept her thoughts on a chain, For now she's alone again and all in pain; She sighs for the man that went and the thoughts that stay To trouble her dreams by night and her dreams by day.”

ThinkingMenLongSaidDreamPainNightFeltPoorTroubleSolitudeChainsCoveredSighOpiates
Book:Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith
Create image