We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion. ✨…

Erica Jong
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion. ✨ Erica Jong (2007). What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong, p.110, Penguin
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