Margaret Mead Quotes

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.

Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it.

Bored by safety, the lover grows jealous and exacting.

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.

Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare: but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common; for jealousy can feed on that which is bitter no less than on that which is sweet, and is sustained by pride as often as by affection.

Do not believe those persons who say they have never been jealous. What they mean is that they have never been in love.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

I'm not jealous, and I'm not possessive, and I'm not controlling.

Younger guys are just too jealous.

Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.

My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.

Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.

Sometimes you can be with someone that you love, but you know it's not healthy for you. You stay with them because you can't stand the thought of them being with someone else. It kills you.

I admit that I am very possessive.

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

Jealousy is an emotion. It doesn't have to make sense. In fact, it usually doesn't.

Jealousy is the fear of losing the thing you love most. It's very normal. Suspicion is the thing that's abnormal.

Jealous?" "Maybe." "No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse.

I was jealous; therefore I loved.