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“In loving life you love what can't survive…”

Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)

“Keeping a journal implies hope.”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

“Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.”

Erica Jong book Fear of Flying

Fear of Flying (1973)

“The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

“Is perception equivalent to existence?”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

“Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.”

Erica Jong book Fear of Flying

Fear of Flying (1973)

“Having a baby with him meant marrying that face forever.”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

“Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head… it's only a matter of degree.”

Erica Jong book Fear of Flying

Fear of Flying (1973)

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

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

“Sheer bitchiness can be a sort of style.”

Erica Jong book Fear of Flying

Fear of Flying (1973)

“And what if I don't want forgiveness?”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

“Humor is a survival tool.”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

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

Erica Jong book Fear of Flying

Fear of Flying (1973)

“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."”

Erica Jong book Fear of Flying

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.
Fear of Flying (1973)

“My body was flesh, which was only one step removed from shit, from clay, from dust.”

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)