#monogamy

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#monogamy #morality #conscience

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#having #many #monogamy #same #too

I cant take it like this much longer, Milt," Karen said muffledly into the big CKC shirt with its male smell, allowing herself the luxury of letting the bars all the way down for once, enjoying for just this moment the eternal degradation of being a woman. "I cant take it much longer," she whimpered, tasting it, the eternally caught and held hard in the grasp of some man, the forever humiliated heavy weight it was impossible to squirm out from under, the forever helpless except for the mercy of him who always takes what he wants without any, and that all women learn instinctively not to expect [...] That was all they wanted. That was all any of them wanted. You give them the greatest thing you possess, the most intimate secret, and they --- just take it. Well, let them have it. Let them all have some of it. Let them root and rut and rowel, as if it was no more important than that why were they all so anxious to keep it away from each other? ↗

— James Jones

#gender-politics #men #misanthropy #monogamy #power

How I feel is that if I wanted anything I’d take it. That’s what I’ve always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven’t room for any other desires. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#love #monogamy #sweet #want #beauty

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#first #like #monogamy #never #over

I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#couple #culture #decides #depends #history

Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy. ↗

— Huey Long

#hard #hard work #monogamy #near #overrated

I think if you're in a committed relationship, unless you have some sort of an understanding, monogamy is something that should exist. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#exist #i #i think #monogamy #relationship

You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#example #ideal #march #monogamy #out

Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage. ↗

— Dan Savage

#children #compulsory #couples #defines #does