Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Liza Monroy

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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Liza Monroy

Liza Monroy is a writer in Santa Cruz, California. Her debut novel, Mexican High, was published by Spiegel and Grau. Monroy recently released a memoir, The Marriage Act: The Risk I Took To Keep My Best Friend In America And What It Taught Us About Love about the three years she spent married to gay Middle Easterner who might otherwise have been deported. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, the L.A. Times, Newsweek, Village Voice, Jane, Self, Bust and others. She earned an MFA in non-fiction from Columbia University School of the Arts, where she was also an instructor in the Undergraduate Writing Program. She currently serves as a member of the Writing faculty at the University of California Santa Cruz.

Born: November 12, 1979
Neither of youIn the couple have to change in order to be with the other. Whether that's having sex with other people or monogamy. The main thing is not having to reconcile your different lives like cutting your hair, changing the way you dress, who you are. The marriage with the guy I was sleeping with was asking me to be someone who wasn't me.
I was marrying someone I loved because I didn't want to lose them; I didn't see anything wrong with that. — © Liza Monroy
I was marrying someone I loved because I didn't want to lose them; I didn't see anything wrong with that.
I used the marriage as a filter. If the guy was conservative, didn't believe in gender-neutral marriage or thought what I did was wrong, then I immediately knew they weren't for me. That was actually very helpful.
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