Erica Jong

I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world...

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't...

Without sex it would be so easy to choose appropriate people to live with. Sex was the joker in an otherwise rational deck.

All people believe their suffering is greater than others.

Keeping a journal implies hope.

It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.

Sheer bitchiness can be a sort of style.

I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.

I'm very dependant. I fall apart regularly.

Dancing is like fucking... it doesn't matter how you look - just concentrate on how you feel.

The zipless fuck is absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives. There is no power game. The man is not "taking" and the woman is not "giving." No one is attempting to cuckold a husband or humiliate a wife. No one is trying to prove anything or get anything out of anyone. The zipless fuck is the purest thing there is. And it is rarer than the unicorn. And I have never had one.

I'm just trying to lead my own fucking life if I can manage to find it in all this confusion.