Erica Jong Quotes About Marriage
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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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