Erica Jong
American author and educator.
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Photographs... are the most curious indicators of reality.
Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
The ultimate sexist put-down: the prick which lies down on the job.
Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Humor is a survival tool.
I'm very dependant. I fall apart regularly.
...the ocean kept falling into itself, gathering itself up, and falling into itself again.
Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry...
I'm just trying to lead my own fucking life if I can manage to find it in all this confusion.
Without sex it would be so easy to choose appropriate people to live with. Sex was the joker in an otherwise rational deck.
It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.
It is our old love I love.
All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye...
If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
...if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.