Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I had very steady and formal relationships with women. And I can say, I fell in love with women and it felt right.

When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.

Forcing people together is an enjoyable conflict to watch, but I think it's even more enjoyable if they love each other.

There is a fundamental difference between men and women - women need romance, men need intrigue.

I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know it's a dichotomy.

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

I'm gonna give them the advice that I always took myself, that it's better to get to know somebody before you jump into the sack with them. Because then if you jump into the sack and fall in love, and you liked them already, you're home free.

I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.

When women want things to get more serious they can come across like relationship saleswomen but a man wants to think his own mind took him there.

I believe that the way to a man's heart is not through his stomach. It's a little further south.

People will always be interested in relationships, infidelity and sex and everything connected to things in their own lives.

I see love developing from friendship. Common ground is a strong basis for friendship. My husband is my best friend and we have a lot in common even though we're admittedly different people. I think it evolves from how I see relationships working. You know, the opposites attract thing happens all the time, but so does the best friends thing. It's just a great kind of relationship in fiction.

Friendship can exist between persons of different sexes, without any coarse or sensual feelings; yet a woman always looks upon a man as a man, and so a man will look upon a woman as a woman.

Sex complicates, but it is the power of love to simplify.

If love exists between two persons, it is blessed. If love does not exist between two persons, then all your laws put together cannot bridge them. Then they exist separate, then they exist apart, then they exist in conflict, then they exist always in war. And they create all kinds of trouble for each other. They are nasty to each other, nagging to each other, possessive of each other, violent, oppressive, dominating, dictatorial.

Men are not very good at loving, but they are experts at admiring and respecting; the woman who goes after their admiration and respect will often come out better than she who goes out after their love.

Let's face it: a date is a job-interview, that lasts all night. The only difference between a date and a job interview is: not many job-interviews is there a chance you'll end up naked at the end of it.

The nice clean intimacy which we now so admire between the sexes is sterilizing. It makes neuters. Later on, no deep, magical sex-life is possible.

We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.

There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.

All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.