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Daily Inspiration Quote by Rachel Hunter

"The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is"

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Rachel Hunter’s line works because it’s half confession, half eye-roll at the rulebook she’s been handed. “The fidelity question is difficult for me” lands like a deliberate deflation of the grand moral drama around cheating. She frames it as a “question,” not a sin, turning a supposedly settled social norm into something negotiable and personal - the way people talk when they’re trying to reclaim agency from judgment.

The pivot to “Society has made us believe” is the real tell: she’s not only talking about her own relationships, she’s pointing at the machinery that polices them. In a pop-cultural landscape that loves to brand women as either faithful saints or scandalous villains, Hunter’s phrasing shifts responsibility outward. It’s a familiar strategy for public figures who’ve lived through tabloid narratives: if your private life is going to be treated as public property, you start speaking in systems, not incidents.

The joke about “killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is” is doing two jobs. It softens the provocation (humor as insulation), and it quietly mocks the way people reach for “nature” to justify desire. She invokes biology, then undercuts her own authority mid-sentence, signaling she’s not delivering a TED Talk on mating patterns. She’s saying: the demand for strict monogamy often feels less like romance and more like compliance - and she refuses to pretend that the cultural script is the same thing as human truth.

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Hunter, Rachel. (2026, January 16). The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-fidelity-question-is-difficult-for-me-society-128778/

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Hunter, Rachel. "The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-fidelity-question-is-difficult-for-me-society-128778/.

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"The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-fidelity-question-is-difficult-for-me-society-128778/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Rachel Hunter (born September 9, 1969) is a Model from New Zealand.

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