possessiveness

• “For effrontery of possessiveness is there anything that can exceed the nest-making, planet-populating, female, human woman?”

  Chapter 15

• “Close, exclusive, two-person cliques characterized by possessiveness and jealousy are formed.”

  Simon & Schuster: It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend

• “Sometimes, she wondered if his possessiveness was the same that he might extend toward a horse or a rifle.”

  Simon & Schuster: Sweet Defiance

• “The continued insistence that women like Ewing should reexamine their feelings of "possessiveness," rather than question the sexual-revolutionary principle of nonpossession, meant that the full depth of women's suffering remained nearly invisible, even to its witnesses.”

  Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83

• “But it bespeaks a kind of possessiveness in modern studies: “This idea is only in the modern period, you can’t have it.””

  井の中の蛙 » Relationship between Modern and Pre-modern studies » Print

• “I think Jeff’s POV that ‘this is my site, and you can’t wiki it up!’ actually harks back to the kind of possessiveness you used to see on sites prior to comment systems and user participation becoming en-vogue.”

  Google Sidewiki: Danger « BuzzMachine

• “The snarling, the fighting, the possessiveness—all the traits of a lean bear in winter.”

  Simon & Schuster: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

• “Being in love is an obsessive journey filled with possessiveness and danger?”

  WHAT WE READ AT 12 MAY BE THE MOST IMPORTANT READING WE EVER DO | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews

• “Hart vacillates between extraordinary pride in my popularity and a fierce possessiveness that results in petulance—very trying.”

  Simon & Schuster: Exit the Actress

• “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.”

  The Guardian: Spare me from the whining women who are giving feminism a bad name | Julie Burchill

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