Non Monogamy Quotes

#1. For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.

Zoe Lister-Jones

#2. People in open relationships enjoy exploring different dynamics with different people-sexual, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. Non-monogamy gives them the opportunity to create unique relationships that nourish and support each other.

Tristan Taormino

#3. 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

#4. It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.

Annie Besant

#5. Mr. Right' is usually two or eight men.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#6. When I hear that "Possession is the grave of love," I remember that a religion may begin with the resurrection.

F.H. Bradley

#7. [On STDs] This be Nature's way of recommending monogamy.

Martin Amis

#8. Monogamy is the true path to happiness.

Wilt Chamberlain

#9. You see, his mother has thrown me out of the house because I was unfaithful to her. Or rather the faith I had wasn't the right kind. Given the absence of mind-reading technology, humans believe monogamy is possible.

Matt Haig

#10. Monogamy, monotony. There's only a couple of letters ...

Richard Linklater

#11. Tequila--a sure cure for monogamy.

Lois Greiman

#12. If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

Nora Ephron

#13. You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.

Rich Lowry

#14. And if strict monogamy is the height of all virtue, then the palm must go to the tapeworm, which has a complete set of male and female sexual organs in each of its 50-200 proglottides, or sections, and spends its whole life copulating in all its sections with itself.

Friedrich Engels

#15. The growth of property and the desire for its transmission to children was, in reality, the moving power which brought in monogamy to insure legitimate heirs, and to limit their number to the actual progeny of the married pair.

Lewis Henry Morgan

#16. There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?

Arthur Schopenhauer

#17. I do wonder why modern society has made monogamy the one and only option. In England, it's always, 'Are you with him, or him?' Perish the thought it might be both.

Jade Jagger

#18. Woman wants monogamy;
Man delights in novelty.
Love is woman's moon and sun;
Man has other forms of fun.
Woman lives but in her lord;
Count to ten, and man is bored.
With this the gist and sum of it,
What earthly good can come of it?

Dorothy Parker

#19. Only species in nature that doesn't commit adultery and in which there seems to be one hundred percent monogamy is a flatworm, Diplozoon paradoxum.

Paulo Coelho

#20. 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

#21. Men think monogamy is something you make dining tables out of.

Kathy Lette

#22. Monogamy is so weird. Like when you know their name and stuff.

Margaret Cho

#23. When it's time to settle into the serial monogamy inherent in writing a book (although, between you and me, I secretly practice biblio-polygamy - I can't help myself),

Cathleen Rountree

#24. I can't imagine anything more stressful than monogamy.

Errol Flynn

#25. And he had been very badly treated by a girl too. He had thought her a really civilised and adult personality, and then she had unexpectedly revealed that she was a mass of bourgeois prejudices and monogamic instincts.

C.S. Lewis

#26. Monogamy is like a 40-watt bulb. It works, but it's not enough.

John Patrick Shanley

#27. Even in the West, moreover, although the ethical ideal has been absolute monogamy, the legal norm has been merely relative monogamy, which is also known as successive polygamy.

J. Budziszewski

#28. It was easy to be nice to an attractive woman over a dinner table. The despair came later, with children and tiredness and the sheer drudgery of marriage and monogamy.

Nick Hornby

#29. Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony.

Rita Rudner

#30. Monogamy is desirable for many reasons, especially in creating a stable, emotionally connected home for children. But judging from centuries of human behavior, it is also a very difficult standard to meet.

Mary Gaitskill

#31. Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).

Milan Kundera

#32. Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Warren Beatty

#33. Today, monogamy is one person at a time.

Esther Perel

#34. Christianity fucked men and women up. Men feel guilty and women have misguided anger. The result, a weak male. Fucking controls on our behaviour. It's like a sickness. A control sickness.

Robert Black