Quotes by Jeanne Safer, The Golden Condom: And Other Essays on Love Lost and Found

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People are more likely to fall intensely in love when they are anxious and their self-esteem is lowest.... Feeling inade — Jeanne Safer, The Golden Condom: And Other Essays on Love Lost and Found
I said it grieved me to part from anything that mattered to me, yet I welcomed the grief because it meant I had felt dee — Jeanne Safer, The Golden Condom: And Other Essays on Love Lost and Found
Exercising will builds esteem from within through action on one's own behalf; it disproves the premise that only another — Jeanne Safer, The Golden Condom: And Other Essays on Love Lost and Found
There are many ways to become mistress (or master) of one's fate after a betrayal, but they all have things in common: c — Jeanne Safer, The Golden Condom: And Other Essays on Love Lost and Found
Defining your own truth and then living according to it ... changes your sense of self and sets you free; it makes you f — Jeanne Safer, The Golden Condom: And Other Essays on Love Lost and Found
Taking a solemn oath and sticking to it casts everything in a different light and infuses the ordinary with significance — Jeanne Safer, The Golden Condom: And Other Essays on Love Lost and Found
The world shrinks to include only two people, only one of whom -- the beloved -- has power. This inequitable distributio — Jeanne Safer, The Golden Condom: And Other Essays on Love Lost and Found
Even though it inspires some of the world's greatest literature, music, and art, obsessive love is one of the most poten — Jeanne Safer, The Golden Condom: And Other Essays on Love Lost and Found
Obsessive love is built on a tissue of illusions: that by having sex with someone you can possess that person's soul; th — Jeanne Safer, The Golden Condom: And Other Essays on Love Lost and Found
He talked about her in a way that only the obsessed do. It was always a pressured monologue, and it was always the same. — Jeanne Safer, The Golden Condom: And Other Essays on Love Lost and Found
Some never escape from the imprisoning conviction that a cold or unattainable lover can be persuaded to become warm or a — Jeanne Safer, The Golden Condom: And Other Essays on Love Lost and Found
What ultimately got me through was my single-minded determination, voiced aloud to myself and recorded in my diary, to d — Jeanne Safer, The Golden Condom: And Other Essays on Love Lost and Found