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Quotes About Intimacy

It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.
~ Sue Johanson
Sex is... perfectly natural. It's something that's pleasurable. It's enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don't we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual?
~ Sue Johanson
In insecure relationships, we disguise our vulnerabilities so our partner never really sees us.
~ Sue Johnson
Being the "best you can be" is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.
~ Sue Johnson
The most functional way to regulate difficult emotions in love relationships is to share them.
~ Sue Johnson
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. —Ursula K. Le Guin
~ Sue Johnson
Hot sex doesn't lead to secure love; rather, secure attachment leads to hot sex—and also to love that lasts. Monogamy is not a myth.
~ Sue Johnson
The first and foremost instinct of humans is neither sex nor aggression. It is to seek contact and comforting connection.
~ Sue Johnson
We are never so vulnerable as when we love." — Sigmund Freud
~ Sue Johnson
He didn't answer. Instead he cupped her face in his hands and drew her towards him. Then he kissed her lightly on the lips. Oh god, she wanted his head between her legs and she wanted it now.
~ Sue Margolis
It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please.
~ Sue Miller
Love isn't just what two people have together, it's what two people make together, so of course, it's never the same.
~ Sue Miller
It seems we need someone to know us as we are--with all we have done--and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please. ...for...others it seems there must be a person to redeem us to ourselves. It isn't enough, apparently, to know oneself. To forgive oneself in secret.
~ Sue Miller
I want a world that is trustworthy. I want to lay the best version of my faults at your feet as you do the same for me.
~ Sue Sinclair
Measured my 'thing'. It was eleven centimetres.
~ Sue Townsend
I don't know why people get so hot and bothered about sex. It's only the insertion of a penis into a nearby vagina.
~ Sue Townsend
we all need to be loved, and we all need to love.
~ Sue Townsend
Sex with the gorilla went on a bit, but once he'd stumbled over my clitoris we both had good times.
~ Sue Townsend
I'm so sorry," he panted. "I shouldn't have done such things to a girl like you before marriage. But I want every bit of you so much. And now we know that we are meant for each other. Our marriage will be blessed with this—passion.
~ Sujata Massey
No legal brief could be more important than a letter from you.
~ Sujata Massey
Love exposes you, makes you vulnerable and kills the personas you built on top of your true self.
~ Suketu Mehta
When we make love you and I are both sacred and secular.
~ Suniti Namjoshi
that secret entrance deep between her thighs clenched like the mouth of a drawstring purse.
~ Susan Andersen
He wrapped his lips around her finger and sucked hard as he slowly pulled the digit free, and that secret entrance deep between her thighs clenched like the mouth of a drawstring purse.
~ Susan Anderson (Burning Up)