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I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to respond to their advances.

— Julie Burchill

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

— Yoko Ono

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.

— Luke Ford

When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.

— Kevyn Aucoin

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.

— Olga Kurylenko

As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.

— Fritz Sauckel

Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.

— Edwin Louis Cole

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

✗Opposing Perspectives

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

— Robert A. Heinlein

I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.

— Jane Porter