My experience of a relationship is two people more or less compulsively playing musical chairs with each other's selected inner archetypes. My tough street kid is romancing your honky-tonk angel. I am your homeless waif and you are my loving mother. I am your lost father and you are my doting daughter. I am your worshiper and you are my goddess. I am your god and you are my priestess. I am your client and you are my analyst. I am your intensity and you are my ground. These are some of the more garish of the patterns. Animus, anima, bopping on a seesaw. —Michael Ventura More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. —Leo Tolstoy More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Perhaps that is what love is: the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power. —Phyllis Rose More about this quote Tags: love power Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies. —Carolyn G. Heilbrun More about this quote Tags: relationships law equality marriage victory challenge debate policy trophies Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Tags: pleasure body flesh humiliation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My wife said she'd like to have sex in the backseat of the car . . . and she wanted me to drive. —Rodney Dangerfield More about this quote Tags: relationships marriage sex Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it. —Elbert Hubbard More about this quote Tags: relationships trouble marriage partnership Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. And more romantic. And also more annoyed when he talks with his mouth full. And you also resent it more when he interrupts you. And you also respect him less when he shows any weakness. Furthermore, when you ask him to pick you up at the airport, and he tells you he can't do it because he's busy, it's only when you love him that you hate him. —Judith Viorst More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love and love always read together from the same book, but not always from the same page. —Richard Garnett More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music, and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays. —Henny Youngman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How many women, she wondered, had poisoned their husbands, not for gain or for another man, but out of sheer inability to leave them. The extreme solution is always the simplest. The weed killer is in the soup; the man is in his coffin. . . . Murder is more civilized than divorce; the Victorians, as usual, were wiser. —Mary McCarthy More about this quote Tags: divorce murder Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I will love You forever," swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. I will love You at 4:15 pm next Tuesday: is that still as easy? —W. H. Auden More about this quote Tags: love forever Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We were classically in love, holding the classic beliefs: Everything is possible between us, we can authentically care for each other through not just the coming days but . . . the numerous busy decades to come. . . . It's in no way denigrating to admit what we all know: This time comes and then it goes. —Jane Shapiro More about this quote Tags: love care Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away. —Dorothy Parker More about this quote Tags: love tightness clenching Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. —Margaret Mead More about this quote Tags: feminism women liberation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email