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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Erica Jong
Born: March 26, 1942 (age 82)
Bio: Erica Jong is an American novelist 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.
Known for:
- Fear of Flying (1973)
- Fear of Dying (2015)
- Fear of Fifty: a midlife memoir (1994)
- How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
- Parachutes and Kisses (1984)
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