Quotes from Erica Jong

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.

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.

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

There are two times when a man doesn't understand a woman - before marriage and after marriage

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