How the French Invented Love Quotes

“Living in an age of casual sex, serial commitments, and frequent divorce, we are all in danger of becoming as jaded as anceien regime aristocrats. Does the notion of undying love still have any meaning for us today?”
― Marilyn Yalom, How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance – A Literary and Cultural History Across the Centuries

“At some level of consciousness, all lovers know this. If you cease to care for the person you love, you will give up a vital piece of your identity. You will become someone else. You will look back on your past love with tenderness or anger or some other combination of feelings, but you will not be able to recapture the same emotions you once felt.”
― Marilyn Yalom, How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance – A Literary and Cultural History Across the Centuries

“neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, The Female Brain and The Male Brain, which point out that a man has two and a half times as much brain space devoted to sexual pursuit as a woman, while the female brain’s empathy system is considerably more active than the male’s.3)”
― Marilyn Yalom, How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance

“true love cannot extend its claims to spouses.”
― Marilyn Yalom, How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance

“Like her spiritual ancestor William IX of Aquitaine, the Comtesse de Die made no pretense that love existed without voluptuous intimacy.”
― Marilyn Yalom, How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance

“Unlike their southern counterparts, northern minstrels emphasized a love of longing rather than fulfillment.”
― Marilyn Yalom, How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance