Gloria Steinem Quotes

They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

Jealousy does not wait for reasons.

How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!

My idea is this, that when you only love a little you're naturally not jealous — or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesn't matter. But when you love in a deeper and intenser way, then you're in the very same proportion jealous; your jealousy has intensity and, no doubt, ferocity.

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.

I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.

Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.

Currently I'm not a crazy ex-girlfriend, but I can't promise I won't be one again.

Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.

Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.

...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go." From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102.

Romantic love is one of the most addictive substances on Earth.

Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.

The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.

Bored by safety, the lover grows jealous and exacting.

What you can't be with, won't let you be.

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.

I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She'll make you so jealous, you'll bust!

I'm mesmerized by the way his fingers move confidently along her skin, as though her body is his to reat and touch and tend to. She was mine before she was yours: The words are there, unexpectedly, surging from my throat to my tongue. I swallow them back.

Adjusting to Beau being a caveman over a girl had been almost as hard as seeing him with Ash. Beau didn't do jealous, not until Ashton had become his. Now he was a freaking lunatic.

Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.