Rajneesh Quotes

A woman is more considerate in affairs of love than a man; because love is more the study and business of her life.

To me, marriage is a dead thing. It is an institution, and you cannot live in an institution; only mad people live in institutions. It is a substitute for love. Love is dangerous: to be in love is to be in a storm, constantly. You need courage and you need awareness, and you are to be ready for anything. There is no security in love; love is insecure. Marriage is a security: the registry office, the police, the court are behind it. The state, the society, the religion - they are all behind it. Marriage is a social phenomenon. Love is individual, personal, intimate.

Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.

You seem to be absolutely unaware of the phenomenon of marriage - which is destructive to both man and woman. Love is creative, marriage is destructive. But love is not dependable: this moment it may be there and the next moment gone. And man wants permanent things; he is obsessed with permanent things. He wants security, safety, he wants to cling. Hence love is not reliable, so he created marriage.

I think a lot of times we're so told in our world that marriage is everything, and having a partner is everything. If you look at our movies and things, it's all directed around that love, and if you don't have that love, how sad you are.

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.

There is a fundamental difference between men and women - women need romance, men need intrigue.

Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that's not the way men work.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Before marriage people want everyone to look at their girlfriends. But after marriage they want to keep their wives locked way.

There’s this issue you’re not allowed to discuss: that women are needy. Men can go for longer, more happily, without women. That’s the truth. We don’t, as little boys, play at being married - we try to avoid it for as long as possible. Meanwhile women are out there hunting for husbands.

Marrying the first person who offers you a decent position in society. Love can wait.

All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.

A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts.

Sexual activity, for women, has a history of vulnerability, in a way it simply does not have for men. The mother has to teach thishidden text to her daughter. The mother's warnings, her attempts to halt sexual development in her daughter, are not so much signs of disapproval or envy, but of fear.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;Girls aren't like that.

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn't cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Samstat, she's bright, she's funny and she can cook!