“We all have a past. And the people that love you wanna know more, and they take your past as a map on how to love you. They don't use it as something to hold against you.”— Stacy Snyder, imdb.com
“Bela: Monogamous sex hits different. Whitney: Bela, it's been one night.”— Mindy Kaling, Sheridan Watson, Justin Noble, Bela Malhotra, Amrit Kaur, imdb.com
“Somehow, the only part of my Catholic upbringing that seems to have survived my youth is the feeling that divorce is wrong, preventable and my fault. So I’ve wondered: Should I have been gayer? Waited longer? Chosen not to date so I wouldn’t have to feel this pain? Married everyone I dated so this w…”— Cameron Esposito, nytimes.com
“Look, we don't have power over when guys treat us like shit. But what we can control is how much we let it affect us.”— Justin Noble, Mindy Kaling, Bela Malhotra, Amrit Kaur, imdb.com
“Why are you so obsessed with finding a flaw in him?”— David Caspe, Alex Kerkovich, Elisha Cuthbert, imdb.com
“You should also know that trust funds set up before a marriage — like hers — don’t qualify as marital property in most states. So don’t assume that money is “yours,” because legally, it probably isn’t.”— Charlotte Cowles, thecut.com
“Now that comedian Sarah Silverman has declared marriage barbaric, is it done?”— Belinda Luscombe, time.com
“A relationship coming to an end when I wanted it to continue is quite bad, but discovering that other people knew it would be ending long before I did is intolerable.”— Brandy Jensen, jezebel.com
“I’m soon reminded that sex with another individual beats beating off pretty much any day if it’s any good — and that it’s often worth the time and effort. (It’s a shame I have to be reminded of this sometimes.)”— Scott Muska, psiloveyou.xyz
“You might gain a new perspective in your relationship with your partner.”— Redefining Love, medium.com
“The external problem, or the elephant in the room, is that there is a serious epidemic of violence against women committed by men. It’s unfashionable to discuss either because it is so obvious or so contested, or both at the same time.”— Julladonna Park, thoughtcatalog.com
“So yeah, it's a war. It's the goddamn fight of my life and you started it.”— Taylor Swift, open.spotify.com
“When exposed to a moving toy or a strange room, babies with cloth mothers rushed to them, buried their faces in the soft fabric and relaxed. Their peers, with only wire mothers, shook in terror against the wall. Left alone for months with only wire mothers, they pined away, staring at the world with…”— Barbara Smuts, nytimes.com
“Increasingly it is personal choice – not death – that sees senior-age women going it alone, with 72 per cent reporting they were highly satisfied living on their own, according to data from the 2017 General Social Survey.”— Zosia Bielski, theglobeandmail.com
“While many in this generation of heterosexual, divorced or widowed women want male companionship, they don’t necessarily relish the thought of moving in with a man.”— Zosia Bielski, theglobeandmail.com