Best 8 quotes of Marilyn Yalom on MyQuotes

For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.

How many times have I heard in France of women who have been married for many years and the husband has had mistresses and you ask, "Why does she put up with it?" Because she loves him! Love is justification for so many things Americans would never put up with.

In France, you have 900 years of romantic love going back to the troubadours and minstrels that wrote stories of Lancelot and Guinevere. You have gallantry at the highest level.

I think people are more likely to think it's better to find something new. That mentality has affected all of our thinking.

We live in a society where we don't want to commit to another person for life. We do at the moment that we marry, but less and less people marry. We marry later, we marry less. On some level of the unconscious, we know there is less of a chance that a marriage will be life-long.

Friendship matters, especially in old age, when death reduces the number of one's friends.

Our history suggests that women will continue to show the world how to be friends.

The Renaissance (like Greek democracy or the fledgling American states) was a construct that applied mainly to privileged men.