Quotes by : Jeanne Safer

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

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....

There are many ways to become mistress (or master) of one's fate after a betrayal, but they all have....

Taking a solemn oath and sticking to it casts everything in a different light and infuses the ordinary....

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;....