Peter Criss Quotes

Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.

There is no such thing as low maintenance or high maintenance, just a bunch of women hoping for a capable mechanic.

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

Relationships between men and women have become much more complicated.

Women are so necessary for us in terms of support.

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.

Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they were destined.

Women give us solace, but if it were not for women we should never need solace.

A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

Patch was in my life for a reason. I needed him. We were two halves of the same whole.

I think that I was just on the cusp of the generation that was beginning to really challenge some of the assumptions about the role of women and the role of men on campus.

I'm not trying to put our women on a pedestal that they don't deserve to be on. No man is a "man" without a woman: It's a woman that helps the man to be a man.

I think a good husband has to depend on having a good wife.

No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.

but sometimes one person can hold you up in life, keep you standing, and without that hand to hold, you can find yourself free-falling no matter how strong you used to be, no matter how hard you try to remain steady.

The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

Would you not agree that relationships are built on trust? Would you not also agree that most individuals think more in terms of "me-my wants, my needs, my rights? What would wisdom dictate - would it not direct us to focus on trust-building principles and sacrificing 'me' for 'we'?"

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond endearments and tender officiousness; and, therefore, no one should think it unnecessary to learn those arts by which friendship may be gained.

Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.

I think the hero in our generation is not the individual but the pair, two people who together add up to more than they are apart.

As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

You can't live entirely alone. You have to have some kind of a support system.

A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.

We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.