J. Tillman Quotes

Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea.

Love. Is it just a word that boys use to manipulate girls?

Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.

At the end of the day, love is such a normal thing, and everyone deals with it. Just because it's a different lifestyle doesn't change the meaning of what I've been raised on, which is fairy tales.

Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

Tell me love isn't true, it's just something that we do.

To me, marriage is a dead thing. It is an institution, and you cannot live in an institution; only mad people live in institutions. It is a substitute for love. Love is dangerous: to be in love is to be in a storm, constantly. You need courage and you need awareness, and you are to be ready for anything. There is no security in love; love is insecure. Marriage is a security: the registry office, the police, the court are behind it. The state, the society, the religion - they are all behind it. Marriage is a social phenomenon. Love is individual, personal, intimate.

People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.

They say that falling in love is wonderful, it's wonderful, so they say.

That love doesn’t come easily and that relationships are supposed to be a struggle. Everything else is so hard; hopefully love is the one thing that is actually fun.

When a man thinks about a woman he thinks about love, he never thinks about marriage. When a woman thinks about a man, she thinks about marriage. Love is secondary, security is first. She lives in a different kind of world - maybe in the future she may not, but in the past the only problem for the woman was how to be secure.

Love either finds equality or makes it.

It's interesting that you don't always fall in love with someone that you're perfectly perfect for.

I am all for love, because love fails. You will be surprised - I have my own logic. I am all for love, because love fails. I am not for marriage, because marriage succeeds; it gives you a permanent settlement. And that is the danger: you become satisfied with a toy, you become satisfied with something plastic, artificial, man-made.

Love is why I came here in the first place.

I think that love is very important and exists in many forms for all of us.

Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent.

I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood, and without making it look my whole life is revolving around some guy. But loving someone, and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff. But isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?

The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.

I think being someone in love is so hard to define, so temporary, because retrospectively we often deny the state in which we were in love.

I have always had an interest in how cultural rituals play into something as unpredictable as romance.

Love is never going to go out of style, a man is always going to want to have the love of a woman. She just needs a game plan to work out how to get his love.

Surely love is both work and wages.