Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

Love either finds equality or makes it.

I want to feel good, I want to feel proud, I want to feel that I give someone enough and that I get enough.

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

I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.

Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes.

I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.

You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.

It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.

Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.

Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.

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.

Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.

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.

When I fall in love I take my time There's no need to hurry when I'm making up my mind You can turn off the sun but I'm still gonna shine and I'll tell you why.

When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.

Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.

What I think," Chatty says, "is that if a man loves a woman more than a woman loves a man, then they're even.

I believe that when we love someone, we respect them, and we listen to them; we feel that their voice matters. And- we let them dictate the terms of who they are and what their story is.

Love is never any better than the lover.

What can pay love but love?

Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.

Real love moves freely in both directions. Don't waste your time on anything else.

Love is always mutual and reflective. You may hate me, and if I want to love you, you repulse me. But if I persist, in a month or a year you are bound to love me. It is a well-known psychological phenomenon.

How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.