If there is one thing that’s been on the minds of all wild women for as long as we’ve been around, it’s love. Whether the topic at hand is true love, lost love, scandalous love, or even unrequited love, there is always a good story or inspiring motto to share. Try these!

My honor was not yielded, but conquered merely.
–Cleopatra

No husband of mine will say, “I could have been a drummer, but I had to think about the wife and kids. You know how it is.” Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure.
–Maxine Hong Kingston, Asian American author and sage

Ted needs someone to be there 100 percent of the time. He thinks that’s love. It’s not love–it’s babysitting.
–Jane Fonda

I don’t want to say that I want a man to like me for my mind, because that’s going to sound like I think I’m Albert Einstein. But I would like someone who doesn’t accuse me of making up words like “segue.”
–Mariah Carey, resilient chart-topper

Better an old man’s darling than a young man’s slave.
–Alberta Martin, the “Oldest Living Confederate Widow,” who married a man sixty years her senior

Basically, I’ve dodged that marriage bullet…I like the jewelry part of getting married, but I can buy my own damn rings, too.
–Queen Latifa, rap royalty

It is no longer obligatory upon a woman to give herself to one man to save herself from being torn to pieces by the rest.
–Jane Cunninghmam Croly, founder of the nineteenth century woman’s club movement

The fantasy we are overwhelmed by Rhett Butler should be traded in for one in which we seize state power and reeducate him.
–Sandra Lee Bartky, philosophy professor

Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be.
–Betty Rollin, television correspondent and breast cancer expert

No pressure, no diamonds.
– Mary Case, indie film screenwriter

Trouble is part of your life–if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
–Dinah Shore, singer, actress, and talk show host