Quotes About Relationships

Most women are trained to put their own needs second, the needs of any man—including a violent man—first.

most girls and boys continue to experience childhood in father-dominated, father-absent, and/or mother-blaming families.

when women tell stories about other women who are not their friends, whom they envy, with whom they cannot identify, they seek to destroy. As all women know, gossip can be destructive and terrible. Because we have been forced to separate our aggressive and our erotic drives in relation to men, we locate our aggression in our relations with other women.

I don't think I'd want to bring that faithless lover back to me. I'd much rather turn him into a frog." "Girl, he already was one.

Socrates said we were once one being, and were split into two when we came to the earthly plain. And now our search for love is the search for our other half.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age. As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

Faults shared are as comfortable as bedroom slippers and as easy to slip into.

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

When you've found the right one - when you see him, when you're with him - you'll feel like you're coming home.

One way to tell if you're really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward. If you don't feel obligated to say something brilliant or funny or surprising or cool. You can just be together. You can just be .

The world is full of unrequited love,' I said finally. 'You and Patrick having problems?' Dad said, reaching around to get the butter out of the fridge. 'No, I was just wondering what you would say if I was a lesbian.' 'Come again?' said Lester. 'I'm having a hard time following this conversation.

Sexually active? Sexually active ? Patrick and I hadn't even learned the fine points of kissing yet! I marched on down. 'For your information,' I said from the doorway, as both Dad and Lester jerked to attention, 'I am about as sexually active as a bag of spinach, and if you want to keep me on the porch and not out in the park somewhere behind the bushes, you'll keep the stupid porch light off when I come home with a boy.

Perhaps that is what love is: the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.

Real love opens doors to something larger than oneself.

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart"- Phyllis Theroux

But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There's too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of.

I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.

My brother and Lauren are very close with me and they are in Sun Valley, so sometimes I need to go there and feel their presence. And there are times I need to see my bro' alone.

I'm social and I meet people and talk to people but I'm not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I'm just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I'm around and who I cross paths with.

When love is a commodity, you wonder why anyone's giving it away for free. Or what the hidden costs might be.

C'è una voracità, che hai con le persone che ti vivono intorno, che mi spaventa. E questo tanto più perché io so quanto, dentro di te, ci sia solamente un fondo di sincera bontà