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Quotes About Attachment

In my experience women are like cats. When you don't want them you can't get rid of them and when you do want them it's like trying to pick up lint with a magnet.
~ Dave Sim
You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.
~ Joan Didion
For women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places.
~ Virginia Woolf
Men feel more bereft without a woman than women will feel bereft without a man
~ Dennis Prager
Women's love is for their men, not for their children.
~ Euripides
Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is weak and needs him.
~ George Eliot
How can I ever miss you when you never go away?
~ Gloria Jones
The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always.
~ Joseph Joubert
The primary concern of the human animal is to avoid rejection and abandonment.
~ Laura Schlessinger
A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.
~ Oscar Wilde
Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.
~ Samuel Richardson
You can't love someone unless you are in an equal position with them. A lot of women have to cling to men out of fear or insecurity, and that's not love - basically that's why women hate men.
~ Yoko Ono
There are certain women who are sexually driven and they can compartmentalize it from an emotional attachment.
~ Zoe Lister-Jones
For the most part, for me and my friends, there's always an emotional attachment that clouds women's judgment.
~ Zoe Lister-Jones
Men always want to be a woman's first love, -women want to be a man's last romance.
~ Oscar Wilde
No woman is an island-ess. We fall in love in hope of anchoring ourselves to someone else, to keep from falling.
~ Chris Kraus, I Love Dick
If you hold onto a man hoping someone else won't get them you have learned how to be desperate, not wise.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a man is jealous of his own car, house, wardrobe, or salary.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Many of the most charming women I know possess at least on cat or dog. Maybe after getting used to an affectionate quadruped it is hard to settle for a man.
~ Luigina Sgarro
There's more women likes to be loved than there is of those that loves.
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
So where does that leave me? I like hosting the show....It's become my identity. If that's gone, where am I?
~ Barbara Delinsky, Blueprints
For a lot of people, one of the reasons they don't like to work for founders of startups is that they can be sensitive and protective around what they've built. You have an emotional attachment to the early marketing and technology materials, and you don't want to hear that anything's wrong with them.
~ Lynn Jurich
I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.
~ Uma Thurman