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Nobody really wants to spend life with someone who has no other choice, and children who have been raised by a mother who gave up her life for them almost always spend years on an analyst's couch learning to spit in her eye.

— Merle Shain Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)

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You can, after all, produce an orgasm yourself if that's what you want, so we must go to bed for something more.

Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)

It is not possible for one person to meet all of another's needs and marriage partners who expect this soon find each other wanting.

Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)

Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you'd like them to be, although often they turn out the same.

Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)

Divorce is very expensive, both economically and psychologically as well, but it probably isn't any more so than living with someone who isn't really on your side.

Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)

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