Marilyn Yalom Quotes

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.

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

There is a belief that love has its own justification, that it should be experienced as passionately as possible. The French have a wonderful expression, amour passion, which is the ultimate.