"You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because……" — Olympia Dukakis
"You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you."
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21 Quotes by Olympia Dukakis
Olympia Dukakis has 21 quotes on this site.
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Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in…
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Well, you know what they say: if you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me!
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it…
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What you don't know about women is alot.
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin -…
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I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you…
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Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult…
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When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to…
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Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the…
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for…
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Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your…
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My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
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More Friend Quotes
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Aristotle
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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
— Aristotle
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
— Aristotle
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
— Saint Augustine
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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child,…
— Diane Ackerman
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for…
— Teresa of Avila
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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
— Richard Bach
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Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's…
— Kevin Bacon
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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there…
— Francis Bacon
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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue,…
— Hosea Ballou
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