Bits and pieces Quote by Angela Carter

We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. Romantics, idealists, eccentrics, we inhabit single-dom as our natural resting state. In…

— Sasha Cagen

We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich…

— Susan Griffin

Regularity is a key: going to bed at the same time, waking up at the same time no matter what. But I think, also,…

— Matthew Walker

“we cannot imagine existing in our culture without the haven of an erotic partnership because our capacity to belong together in more chaste ways…

— Preston Sprinkle

We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.

— Max Stirner

We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.

— Mark Doty

“In our cultural value system, we have divided up human traits between the sexes and consequently have denied each sex a part of its…

— Shane Claiborne

We all exist in relation to the world, our partners, the human race.

— Sarah Ruhl

We are very much social creatures who model ourselves on one another.

— Frances Moore Lappé

Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life.

— Molly Parker

Of those that are drawn away, each is drawn elsewhere toward another: once more a man and a woman, in a loneliness they are…

— James Agee