Feminism Quote by Gary Smalley

The desire for romantic love in marriage is deeply rooted in our psychological makeup.

— Gary Chapman

“Let me reason with the supporters of this opinion, who have any knowledge of human nature, do they imagine that marriage can eradicate the…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“[On married love] This love is above all fully human, a compound of sense and spirit. It is not, then, merely a question of…

— Pope Paul VI

“I do not suppose she had ever really cared for her husband, and what I had taken for love was no more than the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“I think that the love of the really happy husband and wife—not purged of passion, but with passion heated to a white heat of…

— Edmund Morris

The relation between husband and wife should turn into a love of the heart untouched by desire.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

“A woman needs to feel safe in love. She needs to know her husband accepts everything about her and still loves her. To be…

— Tessa Afshar

“It’s as if we believe the general duties of love are fundamentally different from our specific duties as husbands and wives.”

— Winston T. Smith

“A woman’s love is all a man should expect from his wife. That love could be translated into so many positive things, especially if…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“Starting with the hypothesis that all the characters in Women in Love suffer from acute dissociation of sensibility, it becomes clear that psychological reintegration…

— John E. Stoll

“Many of the pains and efforts taken to deal with the contemporary marriage are dominated by considerations of well-being, happiness, and biology. This corresponds…

— Adolf Guggenbhuhl-Craig

The love of a wife to her husband may begin from the supply of her necessities, but afterwards she may also love his person:…

— Richard Sibbes