Fran Lebowitz Quotes

For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.

I'm monogamous from time to time, but I prefer polygamy and polyandry.

I'm in a serious monogamous relationship, and I don't want to keep having different boyfriends, and I have this instead - with men and women. It's better. Instead of having sex, we have art.

I think monogamy is a little unnatural, if I'm totally honest. You change. Things alter. It's the exception rather than the rule and I think it's exceptional to cope with it and manage it. It's hard work.

I do wonder why modern society has made monogamy the one and only option. In England, it's always, 'Are you with him, or him?' Perish the thought it might be both.

Freedom of love is freedom to say yes to many lovers.

Free love sounds great.

I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.

I don't think it's natural to be a monogamous person.

Monogamy is not something that's important to me. I don't think it defines love.

I'm not a marriage person. I've realized that it's not for me, the commitment and all that.

Why am I sharing this part of my life when it opens me up to judgment? But part of me wants to share that part of my life because I think non-monogamy is a normal thing for human beings to want.

You can be with your wife, very happily married, and then you meet some woman and you love her. But you love your wife, too. And you also love that one. Or if she's met some man and she loves the man and she loves you. And then you meet somebody else and now there are three of you. Why only one person?

My husband Terry and I are mostly monogamous. . . . There are times — certain set and limited circumstances — when it is permissible for us to have sex with others.

So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.

I've been a serial monogamist my whole life so I think at this point I'm just going to take a break.

My girlfriend wants an open relationship. I said no way. What kind of man would I be if I had to tell my friends I date you?

I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.

The closest I ever came to a menage-a-trois was when I dated a schizophrenic.

Trying to be able to have, let's say, more than three partners was absolutely impossible, at least for my own relationships.

I don't think our system, where we have one romantic partner, where we get married and we're only supposed to have sex with one person - that doesn't make a lot of sense. Not that polygamy makes any more sense. I've found a system that seems to work for me, and it doesn't require monogamous commitment from anyone.

A monogamous marriage and family is what some women want - but not all of us. We are mostly doing serial monogamy anyway.

Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.

If I'm in a relationship and my girlfriend is sleeping with other people, I don't need to know who it is; I just want to know how she feels about it.

I can't imagine anything more stressful than monogamy.