Quotes by : Jeanne Safer

Obsessive love is built on a tissue of illusions: that by having sex with someone you can possess that....

People are more likely to fall intensely in love when they are anxious and their self-esteem is lowest........

The world shrinks to include only two people, only one of whom -- the beloved -- has power. This inequitable....

Even though it inspires some of the world's greatest literature, music, and art, obsessive love is one....

He talked about her in a way that only the obsessed do. It was always a pressured monologue, and it was....

Exercising will builds esteem from within through action on one's own behalf; it disproves the premise....

What ultimately got me through was my single-minded determination, voiced aloud to myself and recorded....

Some never escape from the imprisoning conviction that a cold or unattainable lover can be persuaded....

I said it grieved me to part from anything that mattered to me, yet I welcomed the grief because it meant....

Defining your own truth and then living according to it ... changes your sense of self and sets you free;....