Richard Dawkins Quotes

Men were never expected to be monogamous.

I don't know, monogamy is a weird thing for me.

It’s really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people.

When I'm in a relationship I'm monogamous.

I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.

I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors.

I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us.

Is the relationships with your spouses of such fragility that the fact that I have a committed, loving relationship with another man jeopardizes them?

In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those.

Do I think human beings are meant to be in 40-year-long monogamous, faithful, relationships? No, No, No. Whoever said they were? Only the Bible or something. No one ever said that was a good idea.

Although I wrote a book about infidelity around the world, I ended up concluding that fidelity is quite a good idea.

But I don't think that it's a form of family that I would be comfortable in. I've found a way to this character and this family, but I still believe that a marriage is between two people and not seven or three.

I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say I think that being in a relationship is a natural state for a human being.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Adultery is the ultimate deal-breaker for me. I would rather be alone than in a relationship that doesn't honor me.

I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.

I think serial monogamy says it all.

I had met my now wife, Sheryl, and was attempting my first try at monogamy, which was not really in my nature at the time, and I wasn't able to do it.

After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.

My husband and I were very in love, and I had no reason to suspect that his interests lay anywhere else.

Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy.

I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?