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...
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
I am not sure at all / if love is salve / or just / a deeper kind of wound.
What would I have said to him if I'd known I would never see him again?
—Jennifer Niven in All the Bright Places
I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.
—Audrey Niffenegger in The Time Traveler’s Wife