White Teeth by Zadie Smith: “This is Clara... through which she reads, in a few short months, Greer's Female Eunuch, Jong's Fear of Flying, and The Second Sex.”
How to Be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis: “I thought if I had a name as fantastic as Isadora Wing, the heroine of Erica Jong’s 1973 novel Fear of Flying, I could do anything.”