Dan Savage

“It gets better.”

“The only way to get a man to commit is to be the kind of woman he's not terrified to commit to.”

“Every relationship is a cross-cultural relationship.”

“There is no 'one.' There are many, and you have to find one that's a good fit. And you have to be a good fit for that person.”

“The 'right' person is a person you are just right for.”

“A relationship is a verb. It's not a noun. It's not a thing you get. It's a thing you do.”

“People should be allowed to do whatever they want in the privacy of their own genitals.”

“The price of admission to a relationship is the dumping of the one who came before.”

“Shame is a tool of oppression.”

“If he's not calling you, it's because you are not on his mind.”

“Sometimes the only way you can get a message across is to be a little bit of a dick.”

“Monogamy is a fucking brewery. It's an institution. It's a norm. But it's not a law of nature.”

“Abstinence-only education is a joke.”

“Cheating is a symptom of a problem, not the problem itself.”

“Kids are resilient.”