Quotes About Relationships

When I left, Lydia was prattling about new clothes for her wedding and expressing her own satisfaction that she, the youngest of the Bennet sisters, would be the first of them to be married. Wickham smiled indulgently and said pretty things to her. I, disgusted with them both, was persuaded they deserved each other.

I dedided it was more important to laugh than eat. - Mary Todd after choosing Lincoln over a more wealthy suitor

sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers

The fabric of human life is woven with relationships. Once we thematize the importance of dialogue, the multiplicity of ongoing and created situations in which dialogical skills can be nurtured abound. As we have seen, this requires us to slow down and turn toward each other, having a clear sense of the relationship between our current footing in dialogue with one another and the future we are trying to create. The nurture of dialogical capacities is essential to human liberation.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

You 'ain't found out yet we're women-folks, Nanny Penn," said she. "You 'ain't seen enough of men-folks yet to. One of these days you'll find it out, an' then you'll know that we know only what men-folks think we do, so far as any use of it goes, an' how we'd ought to reckon men-folks in with Providence an' not complain of what they do any more than we do of the weather.

Her annoyance burned bright. Her neck was still warm and tingling where he'd stroked her, driving home how well he knew a woman's body. Yet he was displeased that she might know a thing or two about how to touch him. The arrogance of it all.

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.

Men are embarrassingly easy to seduce.

There are other kinds of damage, to the people in your life, to your sense of who you are and what you can do, to your future

When we believe ourselves to be alone, we have no responsibility to this world and are answerable to no one.

The hands of his sadness close around my throat and I can't breathe. I have run out of the enormous love he needs to be all right.

My mother insulted me, I insulted her, Jeanne, the stepgrandmother, insulted everything in a skirt, and my grandfather just kept right on drinking. We picked at our food, competing for who could eat the least. When

Hatred is so much closer to love than indifference.

But the silly male fool is often unaware of how much a look,a touch, a word can hold for a woman.Nor does he seem to have any idea at all of the degree to which their absence can make her cross,resentful ,tiresome." This is from her essay "The Power Men have over Women

So many people came into your life, and they were such a part of the everyday that it was impossible to imagine them gone until, one day, they were.

focused on interpersonal relationships between bright, strong-willed adults

Southern women are impossible to live with because they will never find a man who treats them like their daddy did.

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.

The most serious cause of illness that we may face as we proceed to the twenty-first century is increasing human isolation.

Mit machen Leuten Mit machen Leuten lohnt es sich zu leben. Mit andern wieder macht es keinen Spaß. Auslauter Angst, sich etwas zu vergeben, Vergibt sich dieser Sorte immer was.

Ob alle Liebenden so einsam sind?