(306 quotes found)
“Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.”
Andrea Dworkin
“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.”
Andre Maurois
“True love stories never have endings”
Richard Bach
“The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.”
Joan Chen
“It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it.”
Leo F. Buscaglia
“I think it's romantic when someone offers me a seat on the subway. [Carrie]”
Sex and the City
“Are we simply romantically challenged, or are we sluts?”
Sarah Jessica Parker
“I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.”
Brigitte Bardot
“I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.”
Anne Frank
“Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.”
Lillian Carter
