Pat Benatar Quotes

Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.

I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.

How can anyone love someone who is less than a full person, unless love itself is domination per se?

I didn't know that being in a relationship meant you had to be nice. I thought it meant you had to hack away at the other person until they were beaten down and then were too afraid to leave.

We love each other, that’s true whatever it means, but we aren’t good at it; for some it’s a talent, for others only an addiction.

This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does." He thought. "Yes -- really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission.

To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.

Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.

Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris

People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy.

Love cannot live where there is no trust.

I believe that when we love someone, we respect them, and we listen to them; we feel that their voice matters. And- we let them dictate the terms of who they are and what their story is.

Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes.

Love can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating.

Love is not like a buffet line where the person in front of you threatens to take too much and leave too little for you. Love is like a muscle; the more it is exercised today, the more it can be used tomorrow.

Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

Love can make a great celebration out of your life - but only love, not lust, not ego, not possessiveness, not jealousy, not dependence.

I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love.

It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.

If I could make you stay, I would,’ he shouted. ‘If I had to beat you, chain you, starve you—if I could make you stay, I would.’ He turned back into the room; the wind blew his hair. He shook his finger at me, grotesquely playful. ‘One day, perhaps, you will wish I had.

Real love makes you more of an individual. It does not efface your individuality, it gives you individuality. Real love is very respectful.

We can take it slow," he said. "You can learn to be with me. Find out what I'm all about. You never know, you might like what you find." "Don't hold your breath," she said. He stepped toward her casually, amusement flickering around his lips. She tensed, her eyes checking for a way to run. "Or..." His hand lashed out, grabbed her, and whipped her into his arms, where he held her tight. "We can take it fast and rough.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love.