Quotes About Mutuality

We talk of independence. No man is independent. We are all interdependent; and we shall only rise as we carry others with us, and as we are assisted by others.

All I ask, Madam, is to share with thee a common center of gravity.

Fair's fair. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a candy for a candy, a penny for your thoughts.

I thereby learned the invaluable lesson that in the practical activities of life no man can render the highest service unless he can act in combination with his fellows, which means a certain amount of give-and-take between him and them.

Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.

I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

For everyone you create to be dependent on you, you are equally dependent on them. Neither relationship is healthy.

We need others to fulfill things in us that cannot.happen solo.

The best friendships do not require that anyone keep the upper hand.

I can be said truly to know who and what I am only because there are others who can be said truly to know who and what I am.

I never wanted something from somebody without being able to kind of reciprocate, I guess.

I couldn't help but think she'd gotten her chest plus mine. But that was okay, because I liked to think I'd gotten her brains plus mine.

As Matthew Henry commented centuries ago, the woman was "not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.

He was part of my dream, of course—but then I was part of his dream, too. Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

He had entered some state of grace—but one that did not exclude. He made you feel you were his co-thinker, even if you said nothing.

Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.

Woman takes her being from man, man takes his well being from woman.

I think men and women's burdens and destinies are intertwined.

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

Women tend to take care of men a lot, but I like a guy who balances that out and takes care of me, too.

Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously... He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.

We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.