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This catch-22 happens a lot to men. A man can sense that a woman wants to know if he loves her. He doesn't want to share those feelings because, if he does, she will expect him to marry her and be greatly hurt if he doesn't. In romantic movies, loving someone meant that you wanted to marry her. In real life, it is not always the case. ↗

— John Gray

#relationships #dating

In one of the largest surveys of its kind to date, nearly 30,000 women told researchers at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine that they'd rather lose weight than attain any other goal, a figure that alone suggests just how complicated the issue of appetite can be for women. This is the primary female striving? The appetite to lose appetite? In fact, I suspect the opposite is true: that the primary, underlying striving among many women at the start of the millennium is the appetite for appetite: a longing to feel safe and secure enough to name one's true appetites and worthy and powerful enough to get them satisfied. ↗

— Caroline Knapp

#women #dating

It's only one date. I can do it. And you'll probably lose interest afterward." "No other woman's ever needed to give herself a pep talk to spend time with me." "That you know of. ↗

— Ann Bruce

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She looked confused. She looked off-balance. That’s a technique I employ to get dates, and it always works. ↗

— Gary Reilly

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Dates are important in history because what is done on those dates is of importance ↗

— Amit Abraham

#done #importance #dating

She watched through the window. Jerry was walking toward the house again. She waited. It seemed to take forever before there was a knock at the door. She stood there a minute as they looked at one another. He was the high school heartthrob she never had the chance to experience. This was the secret date with her parents away that never happened. ↗

— Judith-Victoria Douglas

#knock-on-the-door #secret-date #watched #dating

The real intimidating stuff is the scene where you show up for the first day. You kind of square off, and that is where you look each other in the eye. ↗

— Ron Livingston

#each #eye #first #intimidating #kind

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare. ↗

— John Mayer

#disappointment #equate #even #explain #feels

I have ways of making extra money when I need it", he said, slightly offended. "When Gilbert needed money for graduate school, I sold a kidney on the black market for tuition." We can grow those back?" I asked. It wasn't my kidney. ↗

— Molly Harper

#molly-harper #dating

Kiss me, babe."' "No, really." Beneath the light of a sixty-watt bulb on her porch, Adele Harris placed a hand on the chest of her latest date. "I've had enough excitement for one night. ↗

— Rachel Gibson

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