Erica Jong
American author and educator.
Hate generalizes; love is particular.
I look forward and see myself look back.
I only know that in our choice of friends and lovers and teachers who will change our lives, we are guided by forces which have nothing to do with the rationalizations we give.
I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life.
...I am sure that when we love we are better than ourselves and when we hate, worse.
Keeping a journal implies hope.
I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
Dancing is like fucking... it doesn't matter how you look - just concentrate on how you feel.
Betrayal does that -- betrays the betrayer.
Is perception equivalent to existence?
Loving someone is a loss of freedom -- but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.