Jennifer O'Neill Quotes

When we enter into any relationship with the premise that we are empty and the other person will fill us in, we are sure to fail. We can only win when we proceed from wholeness.

I've always been the kind of woman who had a man in her life even when he was the wrong man.

If you cannot be at ease with yourself when alone, you will seek a relationship to cover up your unease. You can be sure that the unease will then reappear in some other form within the relationship, and you will probably hold your partner responsible for it.

Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.

I have a tendency to make my partner my everything and that is unfair and it doesn't end up working out because you can't rely on that one person to fulfill all of your needs emotionally.

I can't get no satisfaction.

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.

Some of the reason why you have so many divorces is that we tend to get married, most of the time, not for ourselves, but for others, or for how it looks to others.

The guys I tended to date, you know, didn't necessarily have it altogether but I had a great time.

People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.

My relationship with Dean was great, but ultimately it wasn't a fulfilling marriage for either of us.

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

I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.

The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.

Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.

You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.

Deep down, everybody wants to do what they want to be doing. They just feel that they can't.

I've always gravitated toward men who sort of kind of eclipsed me in some way. And I think that it's because I have this need to be better.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

False expectations take away joy.

I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.

I've dated a number of 'mama's boys.'

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

The story of a passionate woman in a stale marriage is as old as Helen of Troy.