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