Top 100 Quotes About Monogamy
#1. 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
#2. I can give you honesty, monogamy, and more passion than you can stand, but not love. That emotion died in me long ago, as I suspect you already know.
Jeaniene Frost
#4. Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
Warren Beatty
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony.
Rita Rudner
#8. 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
#9. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. I can't imagine anything more stressful than monogamy.
Errol Flynn
#14. 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
#15. Monogamy is so weird. Like when you know their name and stuff.
Margaret Cho
#16. Men think monogamy is something you make dining tables out of.
Kathy Lette
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#21. When I hear that "Possession is the grave of love," I remember that a religion may begin with the resurrection.
F.H. Bradley
#22. [On STDs] This be Nature's way of recommending monogamy.
Martin Amis
#24. 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
#27. If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.
Nora Ephron
#28. You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.
Rich Lowry
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?
Arthur Schopenhauer
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. Mr. Monogamy doesn't find my shenanigans funny? Oh thank god, if you did I'd have to chuck it all and join a monastery.
Kim Cormack
#35. I don't know if I don't believe in monogamy. I think I do believe in it depending on the person or situation or something.
Jen Kirkman
#36. If love wasn't conditional, every single first encounter with individuals of your 'preferred' gender would result in *love at first sight.*
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#37. Revolution in Love'. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity?
Milan Kundera
#38. The honor of acting as New Orleans's mascot comes with a profound responsibility to forsake stress, stability, sobriety, monogamy, respectability, and all manner of legitimate employment and lawful behavior.
Frenchy Brouillette
#39. 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
#42. This isn't the time or the place for me to decide to start thinking about monogamy. That ruins men. Clips their nuts, drains their testosterone, destroys the very things that make politicians good politicians.
Adriana Locke
#43. Accursed from their birth they be Who seek to find monogamy, Pursuing it from bed to bed - I think they would be better dead.
Dorothy Parker
#44. I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life.
Maria Bello
#45. People will sometimes find themselves attracted to others, that's just who they are. It's what they do with that attraction that defines them.
Donna Lynn Hope
#46. Monogamy is not something that's important to me. I don't think it defines love.
Marie Helvin
#47. Infidelity is a deal breaker for me. I've broken up with people over it. You can't do monogamy 90 percent of the time.
Alanis Morissette
#48. Monogamy was the first form of the family not founded on natural, but on economic conditions, viz.: the victory of private property over primitive and natural collectivism.
Friedrich Engels
#49. If love wasn't conditional, everybody would be in love with everybody.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#50. Have you seen what wolves do to their prey? But they do mate for life.
Donna Lynn Hope
#52. Happily-ever-after monogamy has been reinforced so steadily in literature that we tend to feel like failures when we don't achieve that in reality.
Colleen Chen
#53. Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.
Rita Mae Brown
#54. What I'm putting forth," he said, "is that the four of us make some memories, become fast friends and abandon starchy old mind-sets about monogamy. The world's gone crazy. Let's do the same."
"The answer is no," Dad said. "And I'm surprised I'm not punching you.
George Saunders
#55. Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.
Quentin Crisp
#56. Pello, if I wanted two guys, I would have two guys, one's a big enough nuisance as it is.
Sally Courtnix
#57. generation was consumed with serial monogamy. We
Noah Cicero
#58. I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.
K.d. Lang
#59. I understood that if ever one wanted to live with someone you cooked for them and they came running. But then it is my idea of hell these days, living with someone. The idea of sharing your life with someone is just utterly ghastly. I know why people do it, but it's never a good idea.
Nigel Slater
#60. We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
Erica Jong
#61. Sixth-grade sweethearts. Wow. New Yorkers only commit to that type of monogamy with the Yankees or Giants
Gwendolyn Heasley
#62. She [Hillary Clinton] knew that's who he[Bill clinton] was before they got married. It would have been hypocritical for her to insist on monogamy.
Rush Limbaugh
#64. Monogamy is a tricky thing. I don't think it's for everyone, but I've chosen that life, and there's no question in my relationship.
Joanna Garcia
#65. Morals are nothing but a civilized society's attempt to tame some beast called man.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#66. I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us.
Tom Ford
#67. Most women think cheating is 'disgusting' ... until they fall for a man that likes them back; but isn't willing to leave his lover for them.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#68. Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance.
Esther Perel
#69. But the largest number of primate species--thirty-four--have a promiscuous system in which females routinely associate and copulate with multiple males.
Jared Diamond
#70. Monogamy doesn't work unless it rises up from the bones. Because it promises nothing but fear and tension when forced on you. It fills you up with despair where there might be joy. It shoves guilt and paranoia and self-loathing down your throat, if you don't truly want it.
Will Christopher Baer
#71. Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny,
the way monogamy is funny, the way
someone falling down in the street is funny.
I entered a revolving door and emerged
as a human being. When you think of me
is my face electronically blurred?
Jeffrey McDaniel
#72. Homo sapiens exhibits traits consistent with a long history of polygyny or monogamy, and a relative absence of sperm competition.
Alan F. Dixson
#73. Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy ...
Ellen Key
#74. I don't believe [monogamy] is realistic. But, I believe that we, as people, have the power to make it happen.
Kate Hudson
#75. I think I held on for so long because I kept hearing that the alternative, monogamy, was oppressive.
Fabian Romero
#76. Despite the instant blast of heat, I ran through it without a backward glance. "That's love for you," I heard Ian say. "Glad I'm too corrupt to fall victim to that form of intelligence lobotomy." "I hope you fall head over heels for someone who insists on monogamy!" I
Jeaniene Frost
#77. When a man cheats, it is said it is because he is a dog. When a woman cheats, it is said it is because her man is a dog.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#78. Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
Mason Cooley
#79. I think monogamy is a little unnatural, if I'm totally honest. You change. Things alter. It's the exception rather than the rule and I think it's exceptional to cope with it and manage it. It's hard work.
Robert Powell
#80. We just can't shake monogamy. It definitely demands a kind of rigor and discipline and selflessness. But it's also fun.
Claire Danes
#81. Monogamy is not found in any social, group-living primate except - if the standard narrative is to be believed - us.
Christopher Ryan
#82. Long-term heterosexual monogamy is still the dominant model: men and women still want to pair for a long period of time.
Monique Roffey
#84. If you held your head the right way and squinted, we could practically pass for marmosets. Well, the lack of fur and the use of indoor plumbing would give us away, but you get the point. Monogamy is rare among animals, as we have seen, but hardly unheard of.
Marlene Zuk
#85. I've been practicing serial monogamy with one loser after another since I was eighteen. You can't deny I'm an asshole magnet.
Avery Flynn
#86. Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy.
Aldous Huxley
#87. She would keep him, keep his love, deserve it and cherish it, for this much was certain, that there was no longer any happiness possible for her without that one man's love.
Emmuska Orczy
#88. I still don't think monogamy is for everyone. But it's worked for us. And I wasn't ashamed to admit Teddy still gave me butterflies sometimes. When
G.L. Tomas
#89. I think that if I were in a satisfying marriage, I would probably choose monogamy, but I wouldn't want that to be a requirement.
Jamie Johnson
#90. My music touches on things I am concerned with in my own life - the idea of a woman's role in society, sexuality, desire, monogamy, fantasy and glamour. That's what keeps me alive, and if I couldn't keep creating that, I'd fall into a bit of heap.
Jane Badler
#91. I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy.
Rashida Jones
#92. I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.
Nancy Friday
#93. Strong relationships are not rocked by a truth that is grounded by resolute monogamy.
J.R. Ward
#94. Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar Wilde
#95. Monogamy is a possibility - and a necessity. Kids have got to have something they can rely on. You have got to have something you rely on.
Bob Hoskins
#96. I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.
Kate Millett
#97. 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
#98. Monogamous romantic commitment, like infallible lifelong attraction to only men or only women, is surely a minority tendency expediently elevated to a general social principle
Hannah Black
#99. Recreational sex is thus supposed to function as the glue holding a human couple together while they cooperate in rearing their helpless baby.
Jared Diamond
#100. I don't think [being monogamous] is a natural instinct for human beings, but it doesn't mean I don't believe in monogamy or true love. I believe in finding a soul mate. Monogamy can be hard work for some people. I don't think it applies to everybody, and I don't think a lot of people can do it.
Scarlett Johansson
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