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Daily Inspiration Quote by Kim Cattrall

"Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion"

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Practically all is the scalpel here: Kim Cattrall isn’t confessing to a single bad breakup so much as indicting the default settings of modern intimacy. The line lands because it refuses the comforting fiction that relationships collapse due to rare betrayals; instead, it suggests they run on small, daily evasions that everyone quietly agrees not to name. Lies aren’t just cheating or deception in the melodramatic sense. They’re the curated self, the polite omissions, the unspoken deals about money, sex, aging, ambition, and emotional labor. “Mutually accepted” is the kicker: this isn’t villain-and-victim. It’s a contract.

Coming from an actress whose most famous role helped mainstream frank talk about sex, the quote reads as both world-weary and strangely pragmatic. It’s not a romantic screed; it’s a survival note. Cattrall’s public persona has long carried a tension between glamour and candor, and that tension powers the subtext: we want authenticity, but we also want the protection of performance. Relationships, she implies, are little theaters where both people prefer a stable story to an accurate one.

The intent feels less to shame intimacy than to puncture its branding. In a culture that sells “radical honesty” as a lifestyle upgrade, Cattrall points to the awkward truth that many bonds depend on strategic unreality. The delusion isn’t incidental; it’s load-bearing. The line dares you to ask not “Are we lying?” but “Which lies are we both choosing, and what are they buying us?”

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Cattrall, Kim. (2026, January 18). Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/practically-all-the-relationships-i-know-are-23444/

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Cattrall, Kim. "Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/practically-all-the-relationships-i-know-are-23444/.

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"Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/practically-all-the-relationships-i-know-are-23444/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.

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Kim Cattrall (born August 21, 1956) is a Actress from England.

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