Deborah Moggach Quotes

I want a man in my life, not in my house.

If I find the person that I love, it is because I love them, not because I will be dependent on them.

When I'm single, I'm one guy, and when I'm in a relationship I'm totally another. They're both a good time.

I think its wonderful to have a relationship where you both go out and live your lives, and you bring something to the table because you've had other interactions.

The wonderful thing about my husband is that we are very good at being independent.

Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone.

I've always had an enormous sense of independence. But I know that sometimes I can be too independent. It is important to be able to share your life - so that is a work in progress for me.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.

I talk to my friends and, you know, they all seem to get relationships that aren't right. You kind of want someone who is not at your beck and call but loves the idea of being in a relationship and what that entails.

In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do; I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.

You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.

I feel like I see so much online of people being cynical about never being able to find love, and it's become, like, cool. You don't need it by any means. You can live without it, and you can totally be self-independent and happy. But you can also be in a great relationship that's rewarding and loving and caring - and that exists.

Autonomy leads to empowerment. We work hard to maintain a balance between collaboration and cooperation and independence.

Life is not about going from man to man.

To live in relationship and yet remain independent, that is what courage is.

The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...

Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.

Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.

I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don't fold up and die if I don't have a man around.

I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.

I love my personal life and having a social life. And I didn't ever want to have to compromise.