Erica Jong
Quotes
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.
Loving someone is a loss of freedom -- but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
...the ocean kept falling into itself, gathering itself up, and falling into itself again.
And what if I don't want forgiveness?
Is perception equivalent to existence?
Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to deceive?
...jealousy makes the prick grow harder. And the cunt wetter.
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.
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.
