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Letter "I" » intimacy
«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
«The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.»
Author: Carolyn Heilbrun
| Keywords:
intimacy
«My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.»
«The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.»
Author: Harry A. Blackmun
| About:
Constitution,
Relationships
| Keywords:
intimacy, intimate, privacy, right of privacy
«I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.»
«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
«People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.»
Author: Stendhal
| About:
People
| Keywords:
dazzle, dazzled, dazzles, dazzling, extreme, intimacy, in evidence, politeness, proportions, regain, regaining, self-conscious, varnish, varnished
«My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind /intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
by no means, intimacy, My state, psychical
«May she be granted beauty and yet notBeauty to make a stranger's eye distraught,Or hers before a looking-glass, for such,Being made beautiful overmuch,Consider beauty a sufficient end,Lose natural kindness and maybeThe heart-revealing intimacyThat chooses right, and never find a friend.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
chooses, distraught, glass eye, Hers, intimacy, looking glass, overmuch
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