#monogamy

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

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

I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation. ↗

— Sting

#flag #fly #i #monogamy #opposite

We want different things. Men want to have sex with a woman. Then they want to have sex with another woman. And then another. Then they want to eat cornflakes and sleep for a while, and then they want to have sex with another woman, and another, until they die. Women,’ and I thought I’d better pick my words carefully when describing a gender I didn’t belong to, ‘want a relationship. They may not get it, or they may sleep with a lot of men before they do get it, but ultimately that’s what they want. That’s the goal. Men do not have goals. Natural ones. So they invent them, and put them at either end of a football pitch. And then they invent football. Or they pick fights, or try and get rich, or start wars, or come up with any number of daft bloody things to make up for the fact that they have no real goals.’ ‘Bollocks,’ said Ronnie. ‘That, of course, is the other main difference. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#men #monogamy #sex #women #men

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

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

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