Conditions Quote by Shulamith Firestone

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

— Anita Brookner

Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's…

— Elizabeth Peyton

Women love romance, but they're not as romantic as men.

— George Hamilton

Romantic love was invented to manipulate women

— Jenny Holzer

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives

— Alfred de Musset

Romanticism is beauty without bounds-the beautiful infinite.

— Jean Paul

Romance focuses on emotions and on relationships, both of which are fundamentally important to women.

— Debbie Macomber

I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.

— Helen Fisher

I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the…

— Anais Nin

A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.' Quite often men are fools.

— Anonymous

“Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live.”

— Ludwig von Mises

I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.

— Jane Campion