Roseanne

“Relationships—like living things, but unlike buildings—grow, change, and go through cycles. Some offer fruit and others flowers, and there might even be times when it seems like they're providing nothing at all. They have seasons, and they can die.”
― Franklin Veaux, More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory

“A man whose notion of “power” is stuck at the level of “sexual domination” is a man frightened of women, frightened of ability or self-assurance, frightened of life.”
― Nathaniel Branden, The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

“Consciousness does not “reflexively” expand in the face of the new and unfamiliar; sometimes we contract it instead.”
― Nathaniel Branden, The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

“If you get a handle on communication, compassion and self-awareness; if honesty and jealousy management become a part of your approach to life, then managing multiple romantic relationships becomes easy.”
― Franklin Veaux, More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory