Women Quotes by Amy Dickinson

Perspective is the enemy of long-lost love.

— Amy Dickinson

Needy and boring parents tend to have needy and bored children.

— Amy Dickinson

"Nags" nag because they feel they aren't being heard.

— Amy Dickinson

Not every relationship can be altered to fit.

— Amy Dickinson

People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.

— Amy Dickinson

If you've got a good book with you, you're never bored (or alone).

— Amy Dickinson

Being alone is almost always preferable to being with the wrong person.

— Amy Dickinson

You need to start behaving like the person you want to attract.

— Amy Dickinson

Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners.

— Amy Dickinson

Life is both short and complicated. People sometimes make baffling choices.

— Amy Dickinson

You cannot beat the clock. My advice is to grab your moments of grace and enjoy them while they last.

— Amy Dickinson

I think that, on some level, everybody lives vicariously through couples who are getting married.

— Amy Dickinson

You should do what you want, but I think you should also consider wanting something different.

— Amy Dickinson

If nothing changes, you will have to put your disappointment in perspective.

— Amy Dickinson

You must give and receive love only when doing so doesn't hurt others. That's the ethical path, and you should gain strength…

— Amy Dickinson

Almost any group of three is going to form a triangle, with two points closer to one another.

— Amy Dickinson

One downside of being an optimist is that optimistic people tend to forget yesterday's trauma in the belief that everything will turn…

— Amy Dickinson

Sometimes toxic people are so resistant to change that therapy does not really help them - but they send everybody else into…

— Amy Dickinson

This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as…

— Amy Dickinson

In life, you don't get instant satisfaction. In life, you get to slog. You work. You grow. You take the long view.…

— Amy Dickinson

In the name of friendship you should make sure your door is always open to listen. Don't feel you need to provide…

— Amy Dickinson

Being inclusive sometimes means being kind toward people whose views are repugnant. But you should only do so if it is physically…

— Amy Dickinson

Couples who have been together for a long time say the key to staying together is to work as a team toward…

— Amy Dickinson

If you turn the heat down on the relationship, she will soften, the tension will lessen, and she will eventually inch closer…

— Amy Dickinson

Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.

— Amy Dickinson

If people thought more, we'd all have less to amuse us.

— Amy Dickinson

There is true freedom in letting go.

— Amy Dickinson

One person gets to decide if something is a problem in a relationship.

— Amy Dickinson

"Don't be stupid!" is excellent advice.

— Amy Dickinson

All promises are empty - until they are fulfilled.

— Amy Dickinson

Life is weird. And guess what makes it weird? People.

— Amy Dickinson

He sounds like someone who might best be loved from a distance.

— Amy Dickinson

The fullness of life is incubated in its messy places.

— Amy Dickinson

Life is easier when you are comfortable in your own skin.

— Amy Dickinson

Have you ever noticed how bored people are also boring?

— Amy Dickinson

A threat is a promise followed by a consequence.

— Amy Dickinson

If you miss one moment of enjoying your own life and relationships because you're trying to punish someone else, the bad guy…

— Amy Dickinson

You cannot tie your fiance to the railroad track of self-reflection and personal improvement.

— Amy Dickinson

One of the privileges of adulthood is that your parents don't get to tell you what to do.

— Amy Dickinson

Mature people must find their own ways to cope with their own temptations.

— Amy Dickinson