Germaine Greer Quotes

Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting.

He was making her feel small and absurdly petulant and, worse yet, she suspected he was right. She always suspected he was right. For a brief irrational moment, she wished she could walk away from him. Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.

Attachment is not love. Where there is attachment there is exploitation.

I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.

Being married, I would say most relationships are pretty codependent in some ways.

When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.

How we need another soul to cling to.

You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free.

I can't live without a woman. I have to have a woman, have to have a wife.

It drives me nuts how I rely on my wife for everything. I can't imagine a day without her!

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

When you're together with someone for some time, you will automatically depend on them as if they were a crutch. And then it ends.

We're often blinded by romance; we decide to not see things we don't want to see, and put up with behavior that we shouldn't put up with.

Romance takes place when you first fall in love. It stirs all emotions and you can manipulate and be manipulated.

In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.

We are easily duped by those we love.

Love is the use one makes of another.

I figured if I played nice, I’d get more time with you.

It's such a liability to love another person.

Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.

one way to keep people close to you is by not giving them enough. ... with people who give a lot of themselves, you sometimes lean back - but with people who give little you often lean forward, as if they're a spigot in the desert and you're the empty cup. It is the tropism of deprivation: We lean toward those who do not give.

If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!

Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris

If there is no humility, love remains blocked.