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Daily Inspiration Quote by Pamela Stephenson

"Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them"

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Calling love an obsession is a provocation that flirts with pathology, then immediately defuses it. Pamela Stephenson, speaking as an actress and public figure, understands the cultural reflex: obsession reads as messy, needy, maybe even dangerous. So she borrows the word for its heat and urgency, then reclaims it with a qualifier that feels like a wink at the audience: healthy. The move is shrewd because it mirrors how modern relationships actually get narrated in public - we crave intensity, but we also want the reassurance that we are emotionally literate adults.

The line splits love into two lanes: the kind that consumes you and the kind that fuels you. That distinction lets her keep the romance of fixation (the tunnel vision, the adrenaline, the sense of being chosen) while sidestepping the stigma of dependence. "Mine is one of them" is doing subtle image-work, too. It anticipates skepticism and preemptively files her passion under self-awareness rather than self-destruction. There's a performance angle here: actors trade in heightened emotion for a living, and Stephenson’s phrasing suggests someone comfortable admitting to intensity without apologizing for it.

Context matters: coming from a woman whose career involves being watched, the quote reads like a defense of private feeling under public scrutiny. It’s not just about love; it’s about authoring your own narrative when the world is ready to label your devotion as either fairy tale or dysfunction.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Stephenson, Pamela. (2026, January 16). Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/love-is-an-obsession-it-has-that-quality-to-it-115261/

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Stephenson, Pamela. "Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/love-is-an-obsession-it-has-that-quality-to-it-115261/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/love-is-an-obsession-it-has-that-quality-to-it-115261/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Pamela Stephenson

Pamela Stephenson (born December 4, 1949) is a Actress from Australia.

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