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“Poor girls. The world fattens them on the promise of love. How badly they need it, and how little most of them will ever get.”
― The Girls
― The Girls
“A man's deepest fear is that he is not good enough or that he is incompetent. He compensates for this fear by focusing on increasing his power and competence. Success, achievement, and efficiency are foremost in his life ... A man appears most uncaring when he is afraid.”
― Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
― Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
“and hold her. Another woman would have instinctively known what Bonnie needed. But as a man, I didn’t know that touching, holding, and listening were so important to her. By recognizing these differences I began to learn a new way of relating to my wife. I would have never believed we could resolve conflict so easily.”
― Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex
― Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex
“If you have to be with someone at all, then be with someone who makes you feel like you are still in control.”
― Sad Girls
― Sad Girls
“So much of desire, at that age, was a willful act. Trying so hard to slur the rough, disappointing edges of boys into the shape of someone we could love. We spoke of our desperate need for them with rote and familiar words, like we were reading lines from a play. Later I would see this: how impersonal and grasping our love was, pinging around the universe, hoping for a host to give form to our wishes.”
― The Girls
― The Girls
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