#relationships

Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#geographical #intensified #jobs #marriage #mobility

In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#become #century #detriment #developed #fact

For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home. ↗

— Stephanie Perkins

#love #relationships #touching #love

When you're a girl, passion can dominate the equation, but as you grow up relationships evolve. Mad passion can grab you at first, but it can't last forever. ↗

— Jody Watley

#equation #evolve #first #forever #girl

I just like that dynamic in relationships in movies where they're kind of lovers as rivals, you know? ↗

— Marc Webb

#i #just #kind #know #like

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge. ↗

— Rebecca West

#clumsy #gestures #imperfect #international #knowledge

Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#aggression #believing #destroy #destructive #each

Inevitably I draw on my own relationships when I write, so if I'm writing about a fight between a husband and his wife, of course I'm going to think about a recent fight with my husband. Or if I'm writing about sisters, of course I'm going to think about my sister. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#between #course #draw #fight #going

And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#breaks #complex #deep #done #goodbye

But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#get #instead #lot #more #neighbors