Famous Quotes

"The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity."

Kate Millett on Romantic

More quotes about Romantic

• "Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow."

  William Shakespeare on Romantic

• "Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."

  Oscar Wilde on Romantic

• "The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime."

  Billy Graham on Romantic

• "A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure."

  Charlie Chaplin on Romantic

• "Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw."

  Fran Lebowitz on Romantic

More quotes by Kate Millett

• "Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being."

• "What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?"

• "This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you."

• "Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard."

• "Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being."