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Quotes About Relationships

I dead parting from them because in the short time we've been together they've been like family to me. Like family might have been, I mean.
~ Alice Walker
How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
~ Alice Walker
He love looking at Shug. I love looking at Shug. But Shug don't love looking at but one of us. Him. But that the way it spose to be. I know that. But if that so, why my heart hurt me so?
~ Alice Walker
Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights… Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself.
~ Alice Walker
I talk to myself a lot, standing in front the mirror. Celie, I say, happiness was just a trick in your case. Just cause you never had any before Shug, you thought it was time to have some, and that it was gon last. Even thought you had the trees with you. The whole earth. The stars. But look at you. When Shug left, happiness desert.
~ Alice Walker
All he think about since us married is how to make me mind. He don't want a wife, he want a dog. (Walker 2000: 58)
~ Alice Walker
Quién soy yo para decirle a quién ha de querer? Lo mío es querer y nada más.
~ Alice Walker
Now. Is this life or not? I be so calm. If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.
~ Alice Walker
Can you handle it? ast Shug. How I'm gon keep from killing him, I say.
~ Alice Walker
I'm getting tired of Harpo, she say. All he think about since us married is how to make me mind. He don't want a wife, he want a dog.
~ Alice Walker
To love someone over many years is all the opportunity you need to learn how to love them back from anywhere.
~ Alice Walker
What happened to the man I love?'... 'Albert knew as well as me that love would have to go some to be better than ours. Us had the kind of love couldn't be improve. That's what I thought.
~ Alice Walker
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~ Alice Walker
Sometimes I feel mad at her. Feel like I could scratch her hair right off her head. But then I think, Shug got a right to live too. She got a right to look over the world in whatever company she choose. Just cause I love her don't take none of her rights.
~ Alice Walker
Then, just when I know I can live content without Shug, just when Mr. _ done ast me to marry him again, this time in the spirit as well as in the flesh, and just after I say Naw, I still don't like frogs, but let's be friends, Shug write me she coming home. Now. Is this life or not? I be so calm. If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose to learn.
~ Alice Walker
They had a lot of love to give. But I needed love plus understanding. They run a little short of that.
~ Alice Walker
Keep track of family members; talk with them, work and plan for the future with them, vacation with them, take them with you when you have something joyful to share.
~ Alice Walker
Now he realized he'd probably understood nothing, and it also occurred to him what a superficial, ultimately fraudulent act it was to sleep with a person you did not really know.
~ Alice Walker
What make him pull through? I ast Oh, she say, Harpo made him send you the rest of your sister's letters. Right after that he start to improve. You know meanness kill, she say.
~ Alice Walker
Bom, você sabe, onde tem homem sempre tem problema.
~ Alice Walker
It is because when you truly love someone you wish them no suffering, although they must suffer, just in the course of life. You are always reaching out to them, to heal them. They instinctively do the same for you.
~ Alice Walker
Then he say something that really surprise me cause it so thoughtful and common sense. When it come to what folks do together with they bodies, he say, anybody's guess is as good as mine. But when you talk bout love I don't have to guess. I have love and I have been love. And I thank God he let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan. It don't surprise me you love Shug Avery, he say. I have love Shug Avery all my life.
~ Alice Walker
and it is interesting to see today that mothers and fathers are returning to the old way of only visiting each other and not wanting to live together. This is the pattern of freedom until man no longer wishes to dominate women and children or always have to prove his control.
~ Alice Walker
Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the upper hand. Nothing can do that better than a good sound beating.
~ Alice Walker