Sheena Easton Quotes

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

In terms of relationships, I've had two failures, although I don't like to call them failures; they are self learning, and I cannot say I regret any of my relationships. I've always said that I am a much loved woman.

Some of the reason why we marry the wrong people is that we don't really understand ourselves.

I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.

I don't know if there is a 'lack' of good black men. But when you haven't taken the time to get to know yourself, be OK with you, and articulate what it is you want in a relationship, then you can't possibly find that person for you because you don't even know what you're looking for.

I've learned to steer away from the wrong kind of woman for me.

I still feel that I'm capable of being as emotionally present as when I was young.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

This is the thing I've learned, after a lot of couch time: There are always red flags. You need to look for those red flags along the way so you don't continue to make the same mistakes with another person.

I don't want to say that our expectations of love are too high; it's just that if we're to meet them, we have to become a little more self-aware.

I feel proud to be a skater: it's taught me how to be emotional, more connected with myself, more mature, more understanding of my thoughts and the conversations I've had with myself.

Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you've clearly seen things from the biter's point of view - you're re-bounded to fail again!

Anyone who has been through failed relationships - even people in successful relationships - understand that you gain perspective about what is important to you.

I'm interested in how we understand ourselves in our relatioships and how we define ourselves.

Out of frustration, I say things. Now, people listen to me so much I can say it under my breath and everybody hears me... I said in the past that I'm a work in progress, and I feel like I'm progressing.

I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people.

I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone.

I'm a private person by nature. I live in my brain half the time, not the world, and I'm not a natural negotiator. But I've learned to negotiate.

There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

I think the day that I become comfortable doing interviews and going on talk shows is the day that I don't know what it is to be a human being anymore.

I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

I've always been a very self-aware person.

If you can't be with yourself, you'll never learn to be with anyone else.