author and teacher best known for her fiction and poetry.
A 1963 graduate of Barnard College
, and with an M.A. in 18th century English Literature from Columbia University
(1965), Jong is best known for her first novel
, Fear of Flying
(1973), which created a sensation with its frank treatment of a woman's sexual desires
. Although it contains many sexual elements, the book is mainly the account of a young, hypersensitive woman, in her late twenties, trying to find who she is and where she is going.
Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love...
Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.
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 trying 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. And I have never had one.
Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.
I'm just trying to lead my own fucking life if I can manage to find it in all this confusion.
Dancing is like fucking... it doesn't matter how you look - just concentrate on how you feel.
I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
The ultimate sexist put-down: the prick which lies down on the job.
Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
I'm very dependant. I fall apart regularly.