Relationships Quotes

Connection, conflict, and everything in between. What our bonds with others teach us about ourselves.

20931 quotes

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"The surest way to be alone is to get married."
Gloria Steinem
G
"We need to find time to sit and talk without technology between us."
Gloria Steinem
A
"Community cannot for one moment exist as just an idea."
Angela Y. Davis
A
"Community is a process of becoming, not a static state."
Angela Y. Davis
A
"The personal wounds of oppression are also collective struggles."
Angela Y. Davis
B
"Personal fulfillment and family life need not be mutually exclusive."
Betty Friedan
S
"Relationships based on equality do not yet exist; we must invent them."
Shulamith Firestone
G
"Women have very little idea of how much men hate them."
Germaine Greer
G
"The resentment which female chastity engenders is not often admitted."
Germaine Greer
G
"Marriage is a very long date with someone you may not like."
Germaine Greer
K
"The personal is political, and the political is deeply personal."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
A
"Relationships under patriarchy are fundamentally unequal power dynamics."
Andrea Dworkin
b
"Real love is about seeing, accepting, and celebrating the whole person."
bell hooks
b
"Relationships are the primary site where we learn whether love is real or performance."
bell hooks
B
"True partnership means both people pursuing their own growth."
Betty Friedan
B
"Real partnership means both people have equal voice and equal choice."
Betty Friedan
S
"Love is the pivot point of all oppression of women."
Shulamith Firestone
S
"Orgasm under patriarchy is complicated by power imbalances and cultural conditioning."
Shulamith Firestone
S
"Women's sexuality has been colonized and controlled through the ideology of romantic love."
Shulamith Firestone
"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel every quiver they experience."
Audre Lorde
"To be complete, we need others."
Audre Lorde
B
"Relationships are the foundation of a meaningful life."
Barbara Smith
B
"Relationships are what make life worth living."
Barbara Smith
G
"The surest way to be alone is to get married."
Gloria Steinem
G
"Far too many people are looking for the right person instead of trying to be the right person."
Gloria Steinem
G
"The most important thing we have is each other; everything else is a detail."
Gloria Steinem
b
"When we stop trying to be everything to everyone, we can be everything to someone"
bell hooks
b
"The depth of our relationships mirrors the depth of our self-knowledge"
bell hooks
B
"True partnership requires both individuals to maintain their sense of self."
Betty Friedan
A
"Relationships are the foundation of community."
Angela Davis