Jane Ridley Quotes

As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships.

Prem Bubula, I have told you that a woman is to be loved, not understood.

Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love.

More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.

I find it easy to act being in love. I've experienced that and analysed it.

Being in love with a lot of people is incompatible with a stable family life.

Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them; men are cured of their love by the same intimacies.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.

There is need of variety in sex, but not in love.

She makes love just like a woman.

The plainest man that can convince a woman that he is really in love with her has done more to make her in love with him than the handsomest man, if he can produce no such conviction. For the love of woman is a shoot, not a seed, and flourishes most vigorously only when ingrafted on that love which is rooted in the breast of another.

What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.

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.

The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our sighs and begin to stifle our yawns.

Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over a million times daily--choosing love, then choosing it again...how loving and being in love could be so different.

Sex, on the whole, was meant to be short, nasty and brutish. If what you want is cuddling, you should buy a puppy.

Romantic love is not an emotion. ... It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of the mind, the craving part of the mind.

Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony.

Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.

Love is just an institution.

Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.

I think we're always in love. It's that simple. And it's important to remember that love doesn't have anything to do with sex. It's two different things. Being in love is the happy part. I was teasing my gentleman, "We know that you're in love when you cook for us." It's true. When men cook for you, they're in love.