# Erica Jong

- Quotes: 43
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong

## Books

- [Fear of Flying](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying.md) — 14 quotes
- [How to Save Your Own Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life.md) — 29 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life/friends-love-misery.md)

> It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life/it-takes-a-spasm.md)

Topics: [writing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/writing.md), [poetry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/poetry.md)

> Loving someone is a loss of freedom -- but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life/loving-someone-is-a-loss.md)

Topics: [freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom.md), [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md)

> ...the ocean kept falling into itself, gathering itself up, and falling into itself again.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life/the-ocean-kept.md)

> And what if I don't want forgiveness?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life/and-what-if-i-dont.md)

> Is perception equivalent to existence?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life/is-perception-equivalent.md)

> Love is love, but marriage is an investment.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life/love-is-love.md)

Topics: [marriage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage.md)

> Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life/unhappiness-is-our.md)

> What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to deceive?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life/what-was-the.md)

Topics: [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md), [lies](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies.md)

> ...jealousy makes the prick grow harder. And the cunt wetter.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life/jealousy-makes-the.md)

Topics: [passion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/passion.md)

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life/if-you-apologize.md)

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life/i-only-know.md)

Topics: [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md), [choices](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/choices.md)