Love Quote by Cynthia Weil

There is a songwriter’s craft in the way Cynthia Weil slides past the myth of the effortless couple. “Difficult times like everyone else” is a leveling move: no glamorous exception, no special pleading. It’s also a quiet rebuke to the celebrity narrative that long-lasting creative partnerships are either fated or fake. Weil frames survival not as romance’s magic trick but as a set of practiced behaviors.

The phrase “working together and respecting each other’s abilities” reads like studio talk dressed up as relationship wisdom. In a business built on ego, credits, and whose name comes first, “respect” is the real currency. She’s describing a partnership where admiration is technical as much as emotional: you stay because the other person is good, because their talent is legible to you even when your feelings are bruised. That’s a very Brill Building idea of intimacy - collaboration as commitment.

Then she tosses in “that little thing called love,” deliberately underplayed. The diminutive isn’t coy; it’s protective. Love, in this telling, isn’t a sweeping rescue but an ingredient you don’t want to over-romanticize because you’ve watched romance get used as a cover for imbalance. The subtext is pragmatic and feminist in its own way: love matters, but it doesn’t substitute for mutual competence and mutual regard.

Coming from Weil - who built hits by translating complicated adult emotions into clean, singable lines - the quote doubles as her aesthetic manifesto. The marriage survives the way a song survives: structure, listening, and just enough heart to make the work worth doing.