Quotes in this theme
Toxic Relationships
John Updike
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage appear.
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Marlene Dietrich
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Among such persons are those women who transform themselves into just that function of a man that is but weakly developed in him, and then become his purse, or his politics, or his social intercourse. Such beings maintain themselves best when they insert themselves in an alien organism; if they do not succeed they become vexed, irritated, and eat themselves up.
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Anne Sexton
Leaving the page of the book carelessly open, something unsaid, the phone off the hook and the love, whatever it was, an infection.
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