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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.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong
Love, Relationship, Marriage
erica jong (1977). “how to save your own life”

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

Erica Jong
Marriage, Rhythm, Courtship
Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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.

Erica Jong
Marriage, People, Trying

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

Erica Jong
Marriage, Loyalty, World
Fear of Flying ch. 10 (1973)

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.

Erica Jong
Marriage, Broken Heart, Divorce
Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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