Erica Jong

Keeping a journal implies hope.

Love is love, but marriage is an investment.

...if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

There is a rhythm to the ending...

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

Humor is a survival tool.

Hate generalizes; love is particular.

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

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

Inevitably, I drank too much, talked too much, smiled too hard, swallowed back too much bile.

All people believe their suffering is greater than others.

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.

I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.

Sheer bitchiness can be a sort of style.

It is our old love I love.