Monogamy Quotes
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar Wilde -
I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
Candice Bergen
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
Erica Jong -
Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out!
Terence McKenna -
Monogamy is the true path to happiness.
Wilt Chamberlain -
I understand why there would be prohibitions on straying from monogamy because of the harm that it does not only to the person who is betrayed, but also to the person who is betraying. "Betray" is a sort of shorthand for what happens.
Andrew Solomon -
Sometimes people have a wild past because they have an essentially wild nature, and that's how they plan to go through life. Sometimes such people settle into happy monogamy, and can be content there because they never have to wonder, "What did I miss?"
Emily Yoffe -
The same challenge also appears in an even more fraught setting: dating. Optimal stopping is the science of serial monogamy. Simple algorithms offer solutions not only to an apartment hunt but to all such situations in life where we confront the question of optimal stopping. People grapple witah these issues every day—although surely poets have spilled more ink on the tribulations of courtship than of parking—and they do so with, in some cases, considerable anguish. But the anguish is unnecessary. Mathematically, at least, these are solved problems. Every harried renter, driver, and suitor you see around you as you go through a typical week is essentially reinventing the wheel. They don’t need a therapist; they need an algorithm. The therapist tells them to find the right, comfortable balance between impulsivity and overthinking. The algorithm tells them the balance is thirty-seven percent.
Brian Christian
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I certainly do believe in monogamy. I don't believe that it's for everyone. I don't believe that marriage is for everyone. So much of life is begging to be chosen how it wants to be lived. Much more than most of us realize.
Colin Farrell -
Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.
Rita Mae Brown -
I would like to think that monogamy works: that once you make that vow, that decision in your life to stay committed, you actually get to keep that promise; you get to keep that commitment. I think that once you start to lose that, once you start to wonder, even emotionally - especially emotionally - your relationship is bound to get lost.
Jonathan Silverman -
Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.
Adam Phillips -
Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.
Marilyn Monroe -
Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance.
Esther Perel
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I can't imagine anything more stressful than monogamy.
Errol Flynn -
I believe in sexual monogamy, but I don't believe in emotional monogamy.
Nico Tortorella -
Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
Hector Hugh Munro -
Monogamy is monotonous, but it's safe you know. And that's my philosophy. And I like to convey that to people.
Joy Behar -
The beautiful thing about marriage is the right it gives me to monogamy. One man intent on dictating my whereabouts is enough, wouldn’t you think?
Courtney Milan -
Why am I sharing this part of my life when it opens me up to judgment? But part of me wants to share that part of my life because I think non-monogamy is a normal thing for human beings to want.
Nikki Glaser
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For most couples who come to me - especially in the aftermath of the revelation of an affair, when they are in a state of crisis and fear the loss of a predictable future - they start to have conversations for the first time about love, sex, monogamy, and marriage. Most couples don't negotiate or don't even converse about any of these things until the crisis of the affair has actually forced them to. Why does it take infidelity to get us talking about the stuff that should be there from the start?
Esther Perel