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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There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness -- her selfishness, in short -- is a reproach to the American way of life.Erica Mann Jong
My reaction to porno films is as follows After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw, After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live
Erica Mann Jong
The bruise on the heart which at first feels incredibly tender to the slightest touch eventually turns all the shades of the rainbow and stops aching. We forget about it. We even forget we have hearts until the next time. And then we wonder how we ever could have forgotten. We think this one is better, because, in fact, we cannot fully remember the time before.
Erica Mann Jong
It made it acceptable for women to seek pleasure, married or not,
Erica Mann Jong
Life has no plot. It is far more interesting than anything you can say about it because language, by its very nature, orders things and life really has no order.
Erica Mann Jong
Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that one friend in an indifferent world
Erica Mann Jong
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