Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

Erica Jong (née Mann; born March 26 1942) is an American author and teacher best known for her fiction and poetry.   Although it contains many sexual elements the book is mainly the account of a hypersensitive young woman in her late twenties trying to find who Erica Jong is and where Erica Jong is going. Career
A 1963 graduate of Barnard College with an M.