Women Quotes by Amy Dickinson · Page 2

If you feel guilty about not "playing nice," then you could easily alleviate your guilt by playing nice.

— Amy Dickinson

Friendships can survive after massive disappointment, but only if both parties are honest with one another.

— Amy Dickinson

Groveling for connection from someone who compares you to Hitler is not good for a person's self-esteem.

— Amy Dickinson

Absence really can make the heart grow fonder, even when the [man's] feet wander.

— Amy Dickinson

Climb aboard life's elevator, hit the "up" button, and see where it takes you.

— Amy Dickinson

I believe that everyone deserves love, and sometimes looking outside your own culture is a good way to find it.

— Amy Dickinson

Healthy boundaries are important, but you may be building a brick wall when a picket fence would do.

— Amy Dickinson

Friends tell each other the truth, and then friends stick around for the aftermath.

— 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

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

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

— 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

The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships.

— Amy Dickinson

Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology.

— Amy Dickinson

Bullies often act out by marshaling aggression to cover up for insecurity.

— Amy Dickinson

One of the benefits of being divorced is that you no longer need to listen to your ex's assessment of the appropriateness…

— Amy Dickinson

Marriage is an intimate relationship between two people. It is a bad idea to involve a third party.

— Amy Dickinson

Boredom has an important function, because pushing through it can unleash creativity.

— Amy Dickinson

People who are combative in one relationship tend to be combative in other relationships.

— Amy Dickinson

Ask 10 people about their family relationships and at least five of them will report an estrangement.

— 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

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

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

— Amy Dickinson

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

— 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

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

— Amy Dickinson

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

— Amy Dickinson

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

— Amy Dickinson

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

— Amy Dickinson

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

— Amy Dickinson