Compulsion Quote by Carolyn Heilbrun

Married women are just as capable of misery as singles, and single women are just as capable of happiness as married women. Both are…

— Anonymous

There are women who do not like to cause suffering to many men at a time, and who prefer to concentrate on one man:…

— Alfred Capus

To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.

— Alain de Botton

Modern civilization has made woman a little wiser, but it has increased her suffering because of man's covetousness. The woman of yesterday was a…

— Kahlil Gibran

“In the struggle to remain a complete person and to love from her fullness instead of her inadequacy a woman may appear hard. She…

— Germaine Greer

Men and women in their mutual attraction are driven to the very emptiness they are trying to avoid.

— Subhash Kak

As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life.

— Etgar Keret

“Traister points out that our assumptions about single women are often guided by “an unconscious conviction that, if a woman is not wed, it’s…

— Mandy Len Catron

We know desire is rooted in absence and yearning. What you don't have is often ten times richer than what you actually experience. An…

— Esther Perel

“Narcissism is, in a sense, the converse of an habitual sense of sin; it consists in the habit of admiring oneself and wishing to…

— Bertrand Russell

“In The Moral Animal, Robert Wright laments, "A basic underlying dynamic between men and women is mutual exploitation. They seem, at times, designed to…

— Cacilda Jethá

“A lot of women lack the sensuality (NOT sexuality) it takes to be in a soul-fulfilling relationship. Even if they do everything 'right', it's…

— Lebo Grand