As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid - as if we'd disabled them utterly. Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
Erica JongI've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.
Erica JongA poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
Erica Jong