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Quotes About Respect

Love and hate are twin babes, born to the same mother, but separated at birth. Pride, misunderstanding, jealousy prod hate, urge it to destroy its sibling. But love, if it is armored with respect, will always prove the stronger.
~ Margaret Weis
Women should not let lovers read the books they write.
~ Marguerite Duras
Ma... dirlo così... come potrei. Come si può valutare una cosa simile... il disonore? Non dobbiamo valutare una cosa simile, signora. Deve dirmi che somma le piacerebbe avere.
~ Marguerite Duras
Sen bu olay? s?kça anlat?yorsundur, dedim. ... Hay?r, dedi, bunu anlatm?yorum...Her ÅŸey herkese anlat?lmaz...
~ Marguerite Duras
Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Friendship affords total certitude above all and that is what distinguishes it from love. It means respect as well and total acceptance of another being.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
L'or vierge du respect serait trop mou sans un certain alliage de crainte.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Attianus had been right in his conjectures: the virgin gold of respect would be too soft without some alloy of fear.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Je suis contre le particularisme de pays, religion, d'espece. Ne comptez pas sur moi pour faire du particularisme de sexe. Je crois qu'une bonne femme vaut un homme bon, qu'une femme intelligente vaut un homme intelligent. C'est une verite simple.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Of course I'll respect you in the morning,' she reassured. 'I might disparage you a bit in the afternoon, mind,' she added. 'But I can guarantee my undivided respect in the morning.
~ Marian Keyes
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.
~ Marianne Moore
Superior people never make long visits.
~ Marianne Moore
Men in our culture have been spoiled, treated with false reverence instead of respect.
~ Marianne Williamson
We must relinquish the paradigm of men as power with women as support and instead embrace the image of both men and women as powers, with each supporting the other. Any man who holds a woman back is not a man a woman can afford to be with.
~ Marianne Williamson
Our womanhood is major business. When it is treated like a minor issue, we burn.
~ Marianne Williamson
Erotica celebrates women and sexuality. Pornography violates women and demeans sex.
~ Marianne Williamson
How we are talking to each other is as corrupt and corrupting as what anyone is saying
~ Marianne Williamson
I've learned that health and healing come more from love and respect, for oneself and others, than from any specific therapeutic technique. The potential for self-healing and healing from within, both for individuals and communities, is a resource too often overlooked. (xiii)
~ Marie Balter
Love is not honourable, unless it is based on equality.
~ Marie de France
Pride. You have it where you can have it.
~ Marilyn French
To value one another is our greatest safety, and to indulge in fear and contempt is our gravest error.
~ Marilynne Robinson
I mean only respect when I say that your mother has always struck me as someone with whom the Lord might have chosen to spend some part of His mortal time
~ Marilynne Robinson
You never bother me, Glory. It's remarkable how much you don't bother me. Almost unprecedented.
~ Marilynne Robinson