Quotes About Intimacy

I should like to penetrate your mind with my own," he said. "I should like to pierce the mysteries of your soul.

Make love! He disliked the phrase. Could one make love?

Lo que nos hizo encontrarnos fueron dos historias que apenas se dieron la mano en medio de los acontecimientos. Y lo que aquí no pasó, no va a ocurrir en ninguna parte del mundo. Me enamoré de ti como una perra, y tú solamente te dejaste querer. ¿Qué podría ocurrir en Cuba que me ofrezca la esperanza de tu amor...?

Y allí soltaron la risa, y ahí rieron a más no poder, como si sus corazones salpicaran juntos el arrebato pendejo de un errante frenesí. Qué le importaba a ella lo que pasara, qué le importaría llorar el después, si en ese momento podría morir de solo mirarlo, de solo sentir su mano amarrándole los hombros con el cariño cotorro de su abrazo.

Any good lover is a good listener. And a bad listener is at best a bad lover and at worst a rapist.

We've raised a generation of girls to have a voice, to expect egalitarian treatment in the home, in the classroom, in the workplace. Now it's time to demand that "intimate justice" in their personal lives as well.

By midway through Kindergarten- that's age five or six- they've learned from their peers to knock that stuff off, at least in public: to disconnect from feelings, shun intimacy, and become hierarchical in their behavior. The lifelong physical and mental health consequences of that gender performance are ingrained as early as ten. By fourteen boys become convinced that other guys will lose respect for them if they talk about problems.

Can there be true equality in the classroom and the boardroom if there isn't in the bedroom?

That is exactly what teenagers of ass sexualities need: ongoing discussion and education that addresses pleasure, mutuality, safety, love, intimacy, and self-discovery. They need to understand the potential to either be the perpetrator or the victim of intimate partner violence and sexual assault. They need to have agency over their bodies. And for all of them, adult denial puts them at risk of physical and emotional trauma.

Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear. When I was first married, my husband said I was one of the bravest people he knew. When I asked him why, he said because I was a complete coward but went ahead and did things anyhow.

Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.

Anger is one of the most intimate of emotions and to expose it to strangers is one of the most stupid and sickening things to do. Never get angry with strangers because they are strangers.

I almost feel bad for declining, but I feel more terrible that I can't stop looking at how his chest rises and falls with each of his frustrated breaths.

My wife and I have created our own language. We can be at a table with six other people and have an argument without anyone knowing. It doesn't even have to be out loud. It's bizarre.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

Intimacy is a difficult art.

I'm for turning off the tube and turning down the light, cause I'm for nothing else but me and you tonight.

The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.

Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had.

Fashion is every woman's language, and every woman's tool. Fashion is anatomy for me, creating your second skin is one of the most intimate art forms I can think of.

SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture.

I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.

The internet is intimate. Everybody collects the art on the internet, everybody owns the art and enjoys it only for their self, completely selfishly.

Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.