Bell Hooks Quotes

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

I haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do.

You don't want to be single forever. But also, once you have your own life, your partner has to be someone very special because life is so busy. If that person isn't right for you, don't settle for second best.

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends.

When My Love Returns from the Ladies Room, Will I Be Too Old to Care?

If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.

When you're looking to meet someone...you're looking to settle.

I've got a dream lover, so I don't have to dream alone.

I'm a relationship girl, I like relationships, so I just miss being in one and chilling. And not dating.

Maybe you actually do need to face obstacles with someone to know that they're the one you'd sacrifice for.

When choosing sexual partners, remember: Talent is not sexually transmittable.

Someone once said the fundamental reason we get married is because have a universal human need for a witness.

Every heart desires a mate.

You've a very important, early decision to make in your life: are you going to be alone, or are you going to be with somebody else? Are you going to be sane, or not lonely? A couple is a strange thing; it's an organism that's half as intelligent as the most intelligent member. And you both know who it is!

I would like a partner but I can see myself without a marriage. I'd love to have someone to sit and talk with and walk on the beach with at 80.

We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.

I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.

Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.

Everybody need a partner to stand right by their side. Not only down for the good times. But also down through the bad times.

He was making her feel small and absurdly petulant and, worse yet, she suspected he was right. She always suspected he was right. For a brief irrational moment, she wished she could walk away from him. Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.

Think of how they must have loved when all they had was each other.

Get married before the sex gets boring or you'll never get married.

Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.