Erica Jong

The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.

Erica Jong

The most important education you get is your own – the one you learn in solitude.

Erica Jong

The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

Erica Jong

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.

Erica Jong

The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.

Erica Jong

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.

Erica Jong

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

Erica Jong

There’s another part of getting older that’s just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples’ lives.

Erica Jong

They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.

Erica Jong

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.

Erica Jong