Quotes About Relationships

Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out of sexuality is a surefire way to ensure not that young women won't have sex, but rather that they'll have it without pleasure.

Ignoring men, whether romantically or rhetorically, is existential violence to them.

According to pop culture, women are either searching for a man, with a man, or getting over one.

Yes, we love the good men in our lives and sometimes, oftentimes, the bad ones too- but that we're not in full revolution against the lot of them is pretty amazing when you consider this truth: men get to rape and kill women and still come home to a dinner cooked by one.

Americans believe it's best for kids to be with their parents as much as possible; the truth is, however, that our kids do better when they have a lot of people invested in their growth and development—not just their parents, and not just their mothers.

Parents expect their children to be their soul mates in the same way they expect of their spouse—they want children to make their lives and families complete.

What is closer to the truth is that when confronted with the love you deserve, it is easier to mock it than accept it.

Dating their daughters? Isn't it possible to encourage fathers to spend more time with their daughters without using language usually reserved for romantic relationships? Neutral, family-based rhetoric would probably be just as effective and would certainly be less, well, creepy. But calling daddy/daughter quality time "dates" speaks volumes about how young women are valued in the virginity movement--for their sexuality

You can not make someone love you. You can not be thin enough or white enough or famous enough. The choice is entirely the other person's. Then again, you might try hypnosis.

The question is not why fools fall in love. It is expected of them. When "smart" people fall in love - that's the problem.

Everyone declares that love is irrational, and yet everytime this statement is proven correct, they profess amazement. They seem to assume that love will make an exception in their case. It never does.

One of the advantages of having an imaginary boyfriend is that he exists only for you, therefore he can not be stolen. The disadvantage is that you can not introduce him to your friends.

I love humanity. It's people I don't like.

While being madly in love is fun, perhaps one should aspire to be sanely in love.

My Macbook is my new boyfriend, except that he's dependable and meets all my demands.

My debt to you, Belov

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

For despite what some people say, love is not only a sweet falling bound to come and quickly go away.

Sin amor, la humanidad no podría existir un día mas.

L'amore non è un sentimento al quale ci si possa abbandonare senza aver raggiunto un alto livello di maturità.

Senza amore, l'umanità non sopravvivrebbe un solo giorno.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things.

Only in the love of those who do not serve a purpose, love begins to unfold.