The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
“Once you have recognized and admitted to yourself that there is a problem and have started to gain some understanding of the… — Paldrom Collins Copy Share Image
for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I thought I had learned how to have an intimate relationship. And I thought I'd learned how to be happy. Everybody has… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
We go into restaurants, and people aren't talking anymore. They're texting. While they are sitting at a restaurant with each other. So… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“I would never spend the night with someone else. Sleeping with someone suggested a kind of intimacy that having sex with them… — Marshall Thornton Copy Share Image
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Every artist is linked to a mistake with which he has a particular intimate relation. There is the mistake of Homer, of… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
The meaning of secrecy is very different when the model of love is one of transparency. So to understand the politics of… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy with God. If the cross was the… — Steven James Copy Share Image
We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats -… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We are social animals. We like to feel a part of something of beauty and power that transcends our insignificance. It can… — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
“When the impulse to share becomes obligatory, when personal boundaries are no longer respected, when only the shared space of togetherness is… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
The etiquette of intimacy is very different from the etiquette of formality, but manners are not just something to show off to… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
“He looked at me, and then looked away quickly. But I could tell he was interested. I think my tight t-shirt might… — Fiona Thrust Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest impacts on intimacy is fear. Fears surrounding intimacy can result in a push-pull dynamic because of differing attachment… — Annie Tanasugarn Copy Share Image
Just with the basic one guitar, one piano and one vocal and an audience, I think that the intimacy comes through more.… — Graham Nash Copy Share Image
We think the fire eats the wood. We are wrong. The wood reaches out to the flame. The fire licks at what… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
“A little pain was always involved in our intimacy; it heightened my passion. But I knew this was more than him just… — Marni Mann Copy Share Image
“I don't want to be the girl who freezes when confronted with new friends, or the outside world, or the smallest shred… — Francesca Zappia Copy Share Image
“Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Effectual Change: Good leaders value change, they accomplish a desired change that gets the organization and… — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
After sex, men fear too much intimacy; they want to separate again. Women want to talk, to continue the merging, melting fusion… — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended,… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Fear destroys intimacy. It distances us from each other; or makes us cling to each other, which is the death of freedom…… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
At heart, I guess I'm a saloon singer because there's a greater intimacy between performer and audience in a nightclub. Then again,… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
The easier sex gets, the less intimate every sexual act gets. In the Victorian period, a kiss was like a f -… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
Dating is a social brain teaser, as it requires constantly changing ratios of intimacy and distance, an erotic mental cha-cha choreographed by… — Marilyn Suzanne Miller Copy Share Image
“We tell ourselves that intimacy (and marriage) takes two people who are willing to work at it-but, unfortunately, we rarely have the… — David Schnarch Copy Share Image
“If you truly desire intimacy with your Father and Jesus, you must be willing to do what is the very heart of… — Linda Boone Copy Share Image
Perhaps you have been ensnared by a sinful habit that you will not abandon, and your guilt is so overwhelming you are… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent,… — Aly Khan Copy Share Image
“I traced a finger along my bottom lip as I wondered what his erection would look like, and how I should seduce… — Fiona Thrust Copy Share Image
“Could loving, as people called it, make her and Mrs. Ramsay one? for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There are many different ways to express intimacy - a look, a touch - and I think it enriches the characters and… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
“Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Advancement: Notable leaders chart the course of action that causes other leaders to progress toward reaching… — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
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