The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible. (Carolyn Heilbrun)

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

Carolyn Heilbrun

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