Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Erica Jong

Fear of Flying · 1973

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Anonymous woman quoted in Fear of Flying, written by Erica Jong. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same. — Erica Jong

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