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Letter "I" » intimacies
«Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane.»
Author: Ann Oakley
(Sociologist)
| Keywords:
amazing, calmer, exploit, exploited, exploiting, exploits, grace, humane, injure, intimacies, intimacy, kinder, myriad, nevertheless, promising, quieter, security, softer, sublime, subtle, subtler, The Exploited, unequalled
«Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex»
«Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.»
Author: Eric Berne
| Keywords:
compromise, compromised, compromises, compromising, games, intimacies, intimacy, keeping
«Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.»
Author: Henry Taylor
(Author)
| Keywords:
fall into, formed, intimacies, liable, parasites, shy, shyest, Too Shy
«The short story is like an old friend who calls whenever he is in town. We are happy to hear from it; we casually fan the embers of past intimacies, and buy it lunch.»
Author: R. Z. Sheppard
| Keywords:
buy it, casually, ember, embers, fan, intimacies, short story, The short story
«Most people have come to prefer certain of life?s experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that may come wrapped in plain and even ugly paper. In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all costs, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness.»
Author: Rachel Naomi Remen
| Keywords:
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«Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.»
Author: Robert Sternberg
| About:
Commitment,
Passion
| Keywords:
commitment, develop, develops, fade, gradually, intimacies, intimacy, quickest, slowly
«Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem»
«It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
acquaint, acquainted, acquainted with, acquainting, acquaints, determine, disposition, insufficient, intimacies, intimacy, seven, sevens, Seven Days, Seven Years
«Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will»
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