Zitat des Tages von Tracy McMillan:
If you're not married, chances are you think a lot about you.
If I had an office job, I'd probably be doing the exact same thing I'm doing on television: hanging out by the water cooler and talking to co-workers about their relationships.
Though it's safe to say there are a whole lotta American gals who agree with the core ideals of feminism, they are somehow nevertheless watching 'Say Yes to the Dress' by the millions.
We have this false idea in our culture that if you haven't made it by 30, then you're never going to do anything interesting. My 40s have been the most incredible time of my life.
The thing is, relationships never work out... until they do. You learn a lot from relationships that don't work out.
You can't trick The Universe - it's like Santa Claus that way.
Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.
The deal is: most men just want to marry someone who is nice to them.
Rather than diminishing the idea of 'truly needing' a relationship - and trying to deny it, shame it, or talk ourselves out of it - why not just celebrate it? It's exactly what the world needs.
One of the beautiful things about men is that they're very in the moment. That's why they don't want to have an argument about what happened six months ago.
All of us, consciously or unconsciously, set out to have the best possible love life. Valentine's Day simply shines a light on the degree to which that didn't - or hasn't yet - materialized.
I think every woman has this point in her life where she's like, 'I have a great job, great outfits and great friends, but something's missing.'
I talk to women for a living. It's pretty much what I do with my day.
Without really trying to, I've become a sort of jailhouse lawyer of relationships - someone who's had to do so much work on her own case that I can now help you with yours.
Yes, I have 'failed' at marriage - a lot.
I've been standing at water coolers for the past thirty years talking to women about their love lives, and here's what I've learned: Eventually, most women I know want to be partnered.
Sometime between when the Summer of Love ended and the Summer of Sam began, America became a nation of cynics about love.
Being all about me is not a good thing - I don't care what 1978 tried to say - because as long as you mostly think about yourself, you're not going to be a wonderful person. You're just not.
People who find that they have a lot of drama in their relationships need to allow themselves to get 'bored'. At first, it will feel excruciating, and they may find themselves confronting a very real fear underneath all that drama: being truly close and therefore vulnerable to another human being.
Somehow, married or single, we'd rather anesthetize ourselves with love substitutes than go for the real thing, because let's face it: The real thing is pretty scary.