There is a belief that love has its own justification, that it should be experienced as passionately as possible. The French have a wonderful express…

- Marilyn Yalom

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

- Marilyn Yalom

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 …

- Marilyn Yalom

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

- Marilyn Yalom

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 gal…

- Marilyn Yalom

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…

- Marilyn Yalom