A Quote by Jessamyn West

It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.

Jessamyn West

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Jessamyn West
American - Author
July 18, 1902 - February 23, 1984

That idea is strange to me. People keep on loving? People keep on loving even if you are not there in their face everyday to remind them? People keep on loving even if they no longer see you at all? People keep on loving even if they are loving someone else? Impossible: to believe you can be loved in absence when you don't even know how it feels to be loved when you are there.

Camilla Gibb

If you want honesty and love, you have to be honest and loving and loveable.

Aksel Hennie

I am occasionally loveable but for the most part I’m like loving a raincloud.

Sara Quin

If you want to be loved, be loveable.

Ovid

The narcissistic, the domineering, the possessive woman can succeed in being a "loving" mother as long as the child is small. Only the really loving woman, the woman who is happier in giving than in taking, who is firmly rooted in her own existence, can be a loving mother when the child is in the process of separation.

Erich Fromm

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Benjamin Franklin

If you want to be loved, love and be loveable.

Benjamin Franklin

It is quite clear that between love and understanding there is a very close link...He who loves understands, and he who understands loves. One who feels understood feels loved, and one who feels loved feels sure of being understood.

Paul Tournier

The only way to be loved is to be loveable, which really irritates me.

Warren Buffett

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

If someone comes to me and says they're not capable of being loved, I want to reach out to them and tell them that everybody's loveable. If a man is forced or wants to become a better man, then I root for him. Everybody needs to be loved.

Aksel Hennie

I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.

Maya Angelou

There's a special place in my heart for the ones who were with me at my lowest and still loved me when I wasn't very loveable.

Yasmin Mogahed

Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

Florence Nightingale

I told my kids I just want three words on my tombstone, if I have one. I'll probably be cremated. One is "woman." I'm very comfortable in that role. I've loved being a woman, I've loved being a mother, I've loved being a grandmother. I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

What the essential difference between man and woman is, that they should be thus attracted to one another, no one has satisfactorily answered. Perhaps we must acknowledge the justness of the distinction which assigns to man the sphere of wisdom, and to woman that of love, though neither belongs exclusively to either. Man is continually saying to woman, Why will you not be more wise? Woman is continually saying to man, Why will you not be more loving? It is not in their wills to be wise or to be loving; but, unless each is both wise and loving, there can be neither wisdom nor love.

Henry David Thoreau

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