Toyah Willcox Quotes

I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say I think that being in a relationship is a natural state for a human being.

What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.

I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life.

To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's quality of life.

I want a man in my life, not in my house.

Some people say the reason I am not married is that I don't understand small business and the toughest small business in the world is a family. But when you are happy and feel every minute of your life, what is the reason to get married?

Perhaps the single most robust fact across many surveys is that married people are happier than anyone else.

I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy.

I'm a relationship kind of girl. I like a twosome. Some people get excited about being single. I don't.

Love is so much better when you're not married.

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.

The most important right is the right to say to your companion “I love you” and have that be recognized.

Of course I love being in love - but it is marriage that really fulfills me. But not in every case.

I don't know if I believe in marriage - I believe in love.

It's funny: I feel like so many people say, 'Monogamy, it's not natural; we created that for a variety of reasons,' but I think a lot of people love being married and enjoy being married and want to be married to who they're married to.

There's a lot to be said about stability. So many people don't get married nowadays - you see it less and less - but it's a shame if you don't ever have that experience of sharing something with someone else. It's a real shame.

I believe that two people can meet and enrich each other's lives. I'd say that about my parents. But I think it is harder and harder to commit to only one person in a lifetime.

With Hef it was a relationship. It's the world that made a big thing out of it.

I can say I'm a relationship person, and I like relationships. I think I also like relationships because then you don't have to date because dating is horrible.

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.