Pepper Schwartz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Our sexual self is a complex combination of our social, cultural, and biological inheritance.
-- Pepper Schwartz

#Self #Inheritance #Sexuality
In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level.
-- Pepper Schwartz

#Moving #Opportunity #Attention
Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made.
-- Pepper Schwartz

#Baby #Husband #Children
Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.
-- Pepper Schwartz

#Holiday #Expectations #Wonderful
Parents aren't sex education experts just because they are parents.
-- Pepper Schwartz

#Sex #Parent #Experts
My word for someone who has a long list of things that have to be in place in order to be in love with someone is "lonely." Because very few people, if anyone, will fit that whole list. They might even seem to, but they're not going to. Most of us have lists that we can't fulfill ourselves and it also places a lot of pressure on the other person. Your partner is just a human being. They can't fulfill it all.
-- Pepper Schwartz

#Lonely #Long #People
I'd say that it's often true that people are attracted to each other immediately and everything lines up, but it's just as true for those relationships to end up a disaster. But people don't think of that as false love-at-first-sight. They highlight the examples that worked rather than the ones that failed.
-- Pepper Schwartz

#Thinking #People #Disaster

One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.
Hank had left me his doomed army, and heâ€™d left Marcie his inheritance. Unfair didnâ€™t begin to cover it.
One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification. The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.
After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.
Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.
I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.
Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being.
[On homosexuality:] I'm more inclined [now] to say live and let live.
I don't hate homosexuals. I love homosexuals. It's the sin of homosexuality I hate.
My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about. There's a lot of prejudice toward us but the more people talk about it, the less of a big deal it will be. And that will be better for everyone.

Pepper Schwartz famous quotes

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