“Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
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“Hate generalizes; love is particular.”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“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
“Love is love, but marriage is an investment.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“In loving life you love what can't survive…”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
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)
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)
