Gregory David Roberts Quotes

Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.

I deeply believe that men and women need each other.

There is no such thing as low maintenance or high maintenance, just a bunch of women hoping for a capable mechanic.

A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.

There's no point in being a relationship if the two of you don't support one another.

Men get it. I think us men need you women to help us survive.

Patch was in my life for a reason. I needed him. We were two halves of the same whole.

You definitely feed off the people around you, and your man is one of the people you talk to the most. So you kind of help each other and keep each other strong. It's important.

I don’t need someone to complete me, I need someone to make things a little bit better every now and again.

Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

The old saying is true, behind every good man theres an incredible woman.

The whole point of marriage is to encourage your partner's development and have them encourage yours.

As Unto the bow the the cord is , So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him , yet she follows: Useless each without the other.

I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though, she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be.

We need each other, deeper than anyone ever dares to admit even to themselves. I think it is a genetic imperative that we huddle together and hold on to each other. There is no question in my mind that there is nothing else in life, really, than friendship.

The friendship that we established early on in our marriage ... that carries you through tough times. That and a good sense of humor.

Are you strong enough to be my man?

Anytime you're with somebody, you become a reflection of that person. I believe the first five years of our relationship was me grooming her, getting her tough and getting her ready for all of this and how to deal with it. The last was just her being a strong Black woman who has her man's back.

I've come to this belief that, if you show me a woman who can sit with a man in real vulnerability, in deep fear, and be with him in it, I will show you a woman who, A, has done her work and, B, does not derive her power from that man. And if you show me a man who can sit with a woman in deep struggle and vulnerability and not try to fix it, but just hear her and be with her and hold space for it, I'll show you a guy who's done his work and a man who doesn't derive his power from controlling and fixing everything.

This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labors but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstances permit its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death - that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, besides which the passion usually called by the name is as evanescent as steam.

How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life--in short, without you, my life is no life. [Written to his wife, Mileva]

Your partner cannot read your mind, so talk to your partner about how you're feeling and what you need.

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

Rather than look at a marriage as two people morphing into one thing, you could see two individuals who are choosing to form a partnership.