Susan Sontag Quotes

Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.

Even though I'm a free spirit, I like to keep my friends and my lovers separate. I have extraordinary friends, but I don't want to see them naked.

Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.

Lovers know what they want, but not what they need.

Sex is such a personal thing - why do we insist on sharing it with another person?

Intimacy requires an ability to both merge and be separate, to come together and be apart, like oscillating on a giant swing from oneness to separateness, creating a constant rhythm.

I don't think even when you find a person, you can be completely honest, ever. There's still pieces of you that you don't give away. I do believe you always need that place where it's just you, your thoughts, no one else's judgment or anything.

I was in love many times. This is very good for a woman.

I would never speak about specifics in my own relationships because I think it's tacky.

Even if it's a thriller or a comedy, it's always a love story for me, and that's what I concentrate on, because the love stories are my surrogates for the argument: two people in conflict that see life differently.

As a public personality, I keep things related to my children and partner to myself. They are private matters.

I really want that there should be love and respect between me and Ranbir, but at the same time, I want that there should be some kind of distance - that I can see you, but I can't feel you.

My ex-boyfriend didn't hear me fart once, and we were together six years. I hated the thought of grossing him out, so I think some things should be left to do privately.

I don't mind to speak about myself until a certain point, but I think there's also stuff which is for myself that nobody has to know.

I am very romantic at heart in real life.

If anyone interferes into the private life of two people, I will defend the right of those two people between their four walls. That is no problem.

Whenever I am asked about my personal relationships, I politely reply, 'No comments.'

My relationships are between me and whomever I'm with, not between me and the world.

I don't require sex for happiness - I need companionship. I need a partner I can depend on, that I can love and grow with.

When I was young, I liked romance. But to me, romance is the opposite of domestic life. I just don't want anyone in the apartment, not for longer than a few hours.

In love, each man is his own personal challenge.

We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.

As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life.

I just want people to respect the privacy of my relatives in Taiwan. ... They need to live their lives as well.

What about Gale?" "He's not a bad kisser either," I say shortly. "And it was okay with both of us? You kissing the other?" He asks. "No. It wasn't okay with either of you. But I wasn't asking your permission," I tell him. Peeta laughs again, coldly, dismissively. "Well, you're a piece of work, aren't you?