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Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.
SFShulamith Firestone1945–2012The Dialectic of Sex (1970), ch. 6, p. 126
- Women
Love has never been understood, though it may have been fully experienced, and that experience communicated.
SFShulamith Firestone1945–2012The Dialectic of Sex (1970), ch. 6, p. 126
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter VIn context
He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter VIIn context
My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.
Ian Fleming1908–1964
- Age
- Marriage
I vowed I wouldn’t get married until someone gave me one good reason to. No one ever did⁠—but I got married anyway.
Jane Fondaborn 1937Said to Redbook Magazine, quoted by Harold V. Cohen, At Random, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 22 July 1969
- Comedy
- Marriage
The length of one’s days matters less than the love of one’s family and friends.
Gerald Ford1913–2006Statement just before becoming the longest lived U.S. President as quoted in “Ford eclipses Reagan as oldest ex-president” in USA Today (10 November 2006)
- Family
I have not subscribed to any partisan platform. I am indebted to no man, and only to one woman — my dear wife — as I begin this very difficult job.
Gerald Ford1913–2006Our Long National Nightmare Is Over (1974)
- Marriage
Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us.
E. M. Forster1879–1970Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), Ch. 2
It isn’t possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
E. M. Forster1879–1970A Room with a View (1908), Part Two, Chapter XIXIn context
Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
E. M. Forster1879–1970Howards End (1910), Chapter 19In context
- Friendship
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.
E. M. Forster1879–1970Howards End (1910), Chapter 22In context
God has put us on earth to love our neighbours and to show it, and He is omnipresent, even in India, to see how we are succeeding.
E. M. Forster1879–1970A Passage to India (1924), Part I: Mosque, Chapter VIn context
- God
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Anatole France1844–1924Le Jardin d’Épicure [The Garden of Epicurus] (1894)
- Art
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Anatole France1844–1924La Bûche [The Log] (November 30, 1859)