“Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you – the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love – may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Category: marriage
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“My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Category: success
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“Now, if you are like me – if you are like practically anybody in America – then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or… you know… all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Category: movies
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“As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds, for any sad reason, change.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Category: war
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“And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Category: cool
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“I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Category: wedding
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“Listen – of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Category: food
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“I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor – all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Category: society
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