Judy Sheindlin Quotes

A relationship book I once read told women to use the word 'fun' whenever possible. The author claimed it had a subliminal aphrodisiac effect on men, who want a relaxed girl attached only to good times - the human equivalent of Diet Coke. This is not me.

I've always gotten along with guys better.

All of those measures of relationships that you have in your life help feed your and inform your ability to act.

Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.

To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor.

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

In a social environment that is ever crowded and impersonal, it is becoming increasingly important to reconsider the value of close personal relationships before we are driven to ask the forlorn question, 'Whatever happened to love?'

...people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.

Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.

The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.

Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

We're in a hyper-connected world, and there's a crisis of connection. The first thing that God says about woman and man in the Bible is that it's not right for humans to be alone. Social media interaction cannot take the place of face-to-face interaction. If anything, it prevents us from doing that. We're staring into our screens for so long that we're forgetting to look at the people directly in front of us.

All friendships are negotiations of power.

My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It's about as important as things get.

Sometimes chemistry does the trick, and other times, you have to forge that with the people.

A little tip for you, Winged Wonder. Don't threaten the woman you want to seduce." See Annabelle take control. He reached out, gently brushed his fingertip along her collarbone. "If it means saving your life, I'll do more than threaten you. I'll follow through. Best you realize that now, rather than cry foul later.

This is the thing they don't tell you about being a third wheel - it's not like you're the wheel that's added on. You were one of the original two wheels, but suddenly you're not so important anymore. The relationship drives fine without you.

...gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.

You forget who submits, Eva,” he said gruffly. “I’ve given up control for you. I’ve bent and adjusted for you. I’ll do anything to keep you and make you happy. But I can’t be tamed or topped. Don’t mistake indulgence for weakness.

One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with other people, because our relationships with others are fundamentally a reflection of our relationship with ourselves.

When you're 19, getting a girl to say yes, or being a dog, or being a player, cheating. Consent is all about - for me, back then - if you can get a girl to say yes, you win.

A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.

Recently it was pointed out to me - in a kind of hurtful way, to be honest - that people in Los Angeles are aurally challenged. That is, at social events, we simply do not listen to others. We do not ask them questions about themselves, we do not nod attentively when they speak; really, if we were to examine ourselves, we would realize that we simply have no interest in others at all.