Liz Phair Quotes

Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another.

With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them.

I am terrible at relationships.

A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend.

Friendship isn't always sunnyside up.

It seems like every time I break up with someone they try to take all my friends. It sucks because your friends are the people you need the most when you are in pain.

Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong .

I'd address his way of trying to discourage Ian later. After all, he could have come up with something other than saying I was a whiny, smelly, trumpet-snoring bad lay.

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.

I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.

Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated.

I've never been in a love triangle. I would not want to be in that situation.

As actors, you meet people that you are working with and it's tricky. It's blurry... how do you decipher things? I have definitely dated [a co-star], oh yeah, multiple times. It's easy.

I don't feel like embarrassing Kurt by talking about what a psycho hosebeast his wife is, especially when he knows it already.

Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they don’t understand you at all.

She broke up with me. Didn't really tell me why. Luckily when you're the guy, you can just tell people she's crazy. 'Hey, Tom, I heard you and Lucy broke up.' 'Yeah, man. Turns out, she's crazy.' That's what they always do on Entourage.

Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering.

"There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most pernicious thing, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself." "With words."

Friendship is full of dregs.

A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.

I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.

The idea that men are from Mars and women are from Venus is a bunch of bullshit. Treat her like you would a friend, and you'll wind up with a lover.

I'm sorry you're so unhappy as a person that you feel the need to say things that you would never understand [to a paparazzi]