#monogamy

Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny, the way monogamy is funny, the way someone falling down in the street is funny. I entered a revolving door and emerged as a human being. When you think of me is my face electronically blurred? ↗

— Jeffrey McDaniel

#letter #memory #monogamy #remember #funny

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#hard #hard thing #human #human nature #monogamy

I don't know, monogamy is a weird thing for me. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#know #me #monogamy #thing #weird

Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman). ↗

— Milan Kundera

#monogamy #polygamy #sleep #love

Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can't give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop's license to receive it. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#monogamy #love

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