Relationships Quotes

"Women have very little idea of how much men hate them."

"Every time a woman makes herself laugh at a man's stupid joke so that he will think she has a good sense of humor, she betrays the facial muscles into a pattern of fatalistic misuse."

"The torture of a bad marriage is that you know too much."

"If a woman sits by a man's bedside all night long, absolutely pining for him, he calls her devoted. If he's in the mood to call her that."

"To love without role, without power plays, is passé."

"To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial."

"When women love women, we call it lesbianism. When men love men, we call it history."

"Women are not supposed to be liked. They are supposed to be loved, ignored, or destroyed."

"The withering of erotic intensity in a long marriage is inevitable."

"When we stop trying to be everything to everyone, we can be everything to someone."

"Our interconnectedness demands that we care for one another."

"Connection is the antidote to the isolation that systems of oppression create."

"Community care practices are blueprints for the world we want."

"The personal relationships we nurture shape the movements we build."

"Community is where you make your home."

"Real love relationships require two complete individuals, not dependent halves."

"True partnership requires mutual respect and recognition of equal worth."

"The hardest thing for people to do is to trust each other."

"The surest way to be alone is to get married."

"We are not looking for perfect men; we are looking for honest ones."

"A truly equal partnership means both people are willing to be vulnerable."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow human beings; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel all their joys and sorrows."

"We cannot afford to be separate. We cannot afford to be silent about those places where we are different."

"We are made human by our relationships, by what we give and what we receive from one another."

"The sharing of crisis in a human relationship is an act of profound intimacy."

"Our place in each other's lives is sacred and must be honored with care and intention."

"Relationships built on mutual respect and struggle are the strongest bonds."

"Relationships are where we practice justice or perpetuate harm."

"Relationships are the laboratory of liberation."

"In the end, I think we are all just searching for connection."