Diane von Furstenberg Quotes

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

I think that you can get more passionate about somebody the longer you're with them and the more you know them and the more you go through together. Being married is definitely better than it's cracked up to be I think.

I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman. Friendship is far more human.

Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?

I prefer love over sex.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

I don't have a bunch of mates. I don't have a man cave. My wife and I, we are each other's best friend.

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.

I don't think it's more important to preserve female friendship than a marriage. But I think that there's a place for female friendship that's really important in the lives of all the women I know. As I've gotten older, it's become much more important to me.

I always say about my husband, no matter what what we're going through in life, I would rather hang out with him more than any other person.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.

Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.

My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while.

It's nice to marry your best friend. It suits me.

She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.

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

Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.

My husband is my best friend; he knows my sensibilities.

Love can never really be a great base for marriage because love is fun and play. If you marry someone for love you will be frustrated, because soon the fun is gone, the newness is gone, and boredom sets in. Marriage is for deep friendship, deep intimacy. Love is implied in it, but it is not alone. So marriage is spiritual. It is spiritual. There are many things which you can never develop alone. Even your own growth needs someone to respond, someone so intimate that you can open yourself totally to him or her.

If I use the word romance, whether it's my wife or not, it does not mean sex. We can use the word sex when sex is there.

This whole thing about a woman staying alone and being happy is just a myth. Everyone needs someone in their lives.

The other stuff of marriage can fade a little bit, but as long as you can laugh with your partner, that's everything because that's what remains at the end of the day. I think that's how we pick our friends and that's how we ultimately pick who we marry.

I'm not building my life round not being able to bear the thought of being in my 60s and not having someone next to me when I wake up in the morning. That's not what drives me.

I am not a lonely person. I am happily married and not looking for companions on social media.