“…jealousy makes the prick grow harder. And the cunt wetter.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
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“The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world…”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“The ultimate sexist put-down: the prick which lies down on the job.”
Erica Jong book Fear of Flying
Fear of Flying (1973)
“…I am sure that when we love we are better than ourselves and when we hate, worse.”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry…”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“How could one create life with someone who represented death?”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“Inevitably, I drank too much, talked too much, smiled too hard, swallowed back too much bile.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
"Into the lion's den" in The Guardian (26 October 2000) http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2000/oct/26/features11.g2