quotations about dating
Dating is about casting a wide net. It's about having faith that there is someone out there for you and knowing you can help him find you.
LAURA DOYLE
The Surrendered Single
The thing about dating is that it's hardly ever called a date. It's "let's hang out," "let's get together," "let's get some food," or "let's go get some beers." Those are all ways of asking someone out for a date.
SYLVIA HOWELL
How to Survive Dating
Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.
GERMAINE GREER
The Female Eunuch
In its purest form, dating is auditioning for mating (and auditioning means we may or may not get the part).
JOY BROWNE
Dating for Dummies
Dating is not supposed to be torture. It's not supposed to be a series of hoops, each one higher and smaller than the last, some of them ringed in fire, that we jump through to reach the nirvana of marriage.
RACHEL SAFIER
Mr. Right Now
Some women are to be captured by storm and some taken by siege; yet if there be not a traitor in her heart that shall deliver up the garrison, thou shalt not prevail over her.
GELETT BURGESS
The Maxims of Methuselah
Dating is big business. Singles provide a significant economic market for products and services--e.g., clothing, grooming, food and entertainment--that support dating activities. While this does not exhaust the possible societal-level functions of dating, it does convey some idea of what dating contributes to the needs of the larger society.
LINDA P. ROUSE
Marital and Sexual Lifestyles in the United States
Internet dating is the fastest, most efficient way to gather a pool of qualified candidates. It could take you a lifetime to do the investigation that the computer comes up with in seconds.
JUDSEN CULBRETH
The Boomer's Guide to Online Dating
Since you are "in the market," you need to set standards of what you are seeking in a partner and in a relationship. Dating is not simply a prelude to a committed relationship or marriage. Dating is an opportunity to evaluate whether the person you are dating is a good candidate for you. You need to pay attention to your partner's positive and negative characteristics. Ask yourself whether you could live with this person for the rest of your life.
DAVID PRICE
Finding a Lover for Life
The most difficult part of dating is the initial invitation.
JANELL L. CARROLL
Sexuality Now
Online dating is just as murky and full of lemons as finding a used car in the classifieds. Once you learn the lingo, it's easier to spot the models with high mileage and no warranty.
LAURIE PERRY
Crazy Aunt Purl's Home Is Where the Wine Is
The key to successful dating is ... rather than focusing solely on finding and winning over that one and only right person, use this time in your life to learn about yourself and about relationships and to become a better partner. Being single can offer a unique advantage in the pursuit of good relationships. You have the opportunity to step back, take an inventory, learn and grow, and be far more ready for a healthy relationship. Instead of leaping headlong into the next romance, slow down and make some personal discoveries that will increase your chances of having your future relationships be more successful.
NINA ATWOOD
Be Your Own Dating Service
One of the strengths of Internet dating is that it's anonymously impersonal, which helps take the sting out of rejection. If you're interested in someone who notices your profile or you're intrigued by a computer-generated match, let the e-mail begin. If you're not interested, delete the e-mail with about the same level of remorse you'd feel from dumping jellyfish overboard.
JUDSEN CULBRETH
The Boomer's Guide to Online Dating
Even brief dating encounters can be pleasant and rewarding. They provide an opportunity to exercise one's social skills and validate one's style of relating to the opposite sex. As discussed earlier, dating experience can expand knowledge, add insight, and maintain self-confidence in coping with sexual and love relationships. Being liked, appreciated, and admired is flattering and a boost to one's morale even when the encounter has no continuity. Dating is a distinctive social context within which to express one's personality and outlook on life outside of work or family relations.
LINDA P. ROUSE
Marital and Sexual Lifestyles in the United States