“And what if I don't want forgiveness?”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
Erica Jong, née Erica Mann le 26 mars 1942 à New York, est une écrivaine américaine surtout connue en France comme l'auteur du roman Le Complexe d'Icare, d'abord paru aux États-Unis sous le titre Fear of Flying en 1973, et de sa suite, La Planche de salut, paru aux États-Unis sous le titre How to Save Your Own Life en 1977. Cette grande figure du féminisme américain a également écrit des poèmes, dont un recueil, Amour racine, traduit et publié en 1979 chez Seghers. Wikipedia

“And what if I don't want forgiveness?”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“I'm just trying to lead my own fucking life if I can manage to find it in all this confusion.”
Erica Jong livre Fear of Flying
Fear of Flying (1973)
Erica Jong livre Fear of Flying
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.
Fear of Flying (1973)
“My body was flesh, which was only one step removed from shit, from clay, from dust.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)