All Quotes By Tag: Men-and-women

“But it seems logical… a man and a woman have to be somewhat equal… as in, one of them can’t always be swooping in and saving the other one. They have to save each other equally. …. I can’t always be Lois Lane,” I insisted. “ I want to be Superman, too.”

“A society which sees her modesty or her “hang-ups” as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely, a society which respected modesty, or what now goes by “hang-ups”, was one in which men were obligated.”

“Watching him with one eye, she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.”

“Men, being accustomed to act on reflection themselves, are a great deal too apt to believe that women act on reflection, too. Women do nothing of the sort. They act on impulse; and, in nine cases out of ten, they are heartily sorry for it afterward.”

“Can I have a glass of water?” Her voice was hoarse, probably from screaming. She’d always sounded like that after they’d-He didn’t just force the thought aside. He clubbed it unconscious, threw it into a crawl space and walled it up alive.”

“I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner.”He threw the rest of her sandwich at the swinging door as she passed through it.”

“I couldn’t take much more of this. Being the object two men competed for wasn’t as glamorous as it sounded in the movies. The two men who both wanted one hundred percent of my time weren’t dashing, international playboys. They were undead and surprisingly immature, considering the youngest was just over a hundred years old.”

“It’s disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.”

“There’s a cover for every pot, but I’ve never seen so many mismatched pots and covers in all my life. – Ellen Wasserfeldman, from Notes from Ellen Wasserfeldman by Alisa Dana Steinberg”

“Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it.”

“One minute she acts like she wants to be with me and I’m the one rejecting her. The next, she’s got this barbed wire fence and barking dogs around her, like I can’t even ask her the simplest questions.””And here I was assuming you didn’t care about her.”Stabbing his fingers through his hair, he groaned, “I don’t!””And you make it perfectly clear.” Men. Idiots.”

“There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman.”

“It is assured that men of all ages imagine a woman naked when they first meet.”

“Unfortunately, he still hadn’t asked for my number, or a date, or my hand in marriage, and my drink was getting low.”

“Women, in general, will find it difficult to turn from a man and stop demanding that he meets their needs, provides security, and protects their identity, and return to me. Men, in general, find it very hard to turn from the works of their hands, their own quests for power and security and significance, and turn to me.”