Agnes Smedley Quotes

We're great, Jo and me. We're pals, and I guess sex has a lot to do with it. She's also brilliant at clearing a room. So protective, so devoted. I can't believe how much she loves me.

Kevin stopped where he was and stood there simply gazing at her. Molly sat cross-legged in the meadow with the sun shining on her bare shoulders and a pair of yellow butterflies fluttering like hair bows around her head. She was all the dreams he'd lost at dawn-dreams of everything he hadn't understood he needed until now. She was his playmate, his confidante, the lover who made his blood rush. She was the mother of his children and the companion of his old age. She was the joy of his heart.

The secret ingredient to sex is love.

Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.

There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.

I'm just saying, it's got to be about something more than just body parts when you're with somebody.

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

I think most people would struggle to define their whole relationship with just one label - like: my girlfriend, boyfriend, brother, sister, confidantes, whatever - but in those moments, there's true joy in each other.

I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.

I always say about my husband, no matter what what we're going through in life, I would rather hang out with him more than any other person.

Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.

I'd rather be screwed up with you than smooth with anybody else.

Every romance does not lead to sex.

Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.

The art of love is who you share it with.

friendship is love made bearable.

If you are going to be with someone all the time, they need to be your best friend.

Do you love me, do you wanna be my friend?

Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.

The eyes start love; intimacy perfects it.

I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.

Pray with your woman, sing with your woman, play with your woman, dance with your woman, with no idea of sex.

It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) -to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors.

Always remember, children, that marriage is a very intimate relationship. It's not just sitting and chatting to a person; there are other things, you know.

The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone.