Women
And Men Quotes - I'm trying to be a man like a woman
“When
women agree with me I always do the other thing”
―
Charles Bukowski, Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories
and Essays, 1944-1990
“Women
are odd. I really mean that. A woman doesn't know the effect she has on a man.
Any woman affects every man with instant global tonnage every single time. But
women all go about teaching each other it isn't true. God knows why. They reach
for doubt, where we blokes go for hope. This accounts for much of their
behavior.”
―
Jonathan Gash, The Great California Game
“Women
are people too".”
― R.
Alan Woods
“If
a woman tells a man the god favor him, everybody says she's far-minded.' The
broom halted mid-sweep and the slave turned to Hild. 'But let a woman do what
the gods tell her, without asking a man's permission first? Then she's
possessed.' Unwen punctuated her words with her broom, jabbing it into the
corner.”
―
Rebecca Barnhouse, Peaceweaver
“There
were too many idiot men in the world, to her way of thinking. And most of them
ended up bumping up against stubborn women.”
―
Nora Roberts, Dance Upon the Air
“The
men fight for their thrones and their power and their legacies, but to them, we
are nothing more than crickets and ants, insignificant, expandable...What does
it matter who wears the crown, if they will not change any of this for us?”
―
Ann Liang, A Song to Drown Rivers
“Unlike
music, excessive reading has been shown to be dangerous for the female mind. It
was taught in our earliest lectures: the male cells are essentially katabolic:
active energetic; and female cells are anabolic: there to conserve energy and
support life. While a little light reading is fine, breakdown follows when
woman goes against her nature.”
―
Anna Hope, The Ballroom
“What
trail of thought, confused and indirect, drove through those minds of theirs,
to cloud their judgement? What waves of impulse swept about their being, moving
them to anger and withdrawal, or else to sudden generosity? We were surely
different, with our blunter comprehension, moving more slowly to the compass
points, while they, erratic and unstable, were blown about their course by
winds of fancy.”
―
Daphne du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel
“iven
a good time in bed, women turn blind to the faults of their men, how strange!”
―
B.S. Murthy, Benign Flame: Saga of Love
“All
my life I’d been taught that was the pinnacle of a woman’s purpose — to marry
and bear heirs for the kingdom. But somehow, now, hearing it in my own thoughts
felt crude, hollow and sad.”
―
Dari A. Malaunt, Ashen Embrace (Divine Destinies
“Real
men feel reassured when women take charge, while pipsqueaks feel emasculated by
the very thought.”
―
Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“What
attracted men? Good looks? Certainly if a girl was pretty then she tended to
get the attention of men; that was beyond any doubt at all. But it was not just
prettiness that mattered, because there were many girls who did not look
anything special but who seemed to find no difficulty in making men notice them.
These girls dressed in a very careful way; they knew which colours appealed to
men (red, and other bright colours; men were like cattle in that respect)
[...]”
―
Alexander McCall Smith, In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
“If
they don't appreciate you at your best, do you think they will do it at your
worst? Learn or perish.”
―
Emmanuel Apetsi
“Girls
were pure different from fellas. They lit the room with candles, got extra
pillows and cushions from upstairs. Big bags of M&M's and Maltesers.
Popcorn with lashings of butter.”
―
Colin Walsh, Kala
“No
matter how shitty things got for a man, they were always shittier for a woman.”
―
Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls
“And
he treated me with a chivalrous masculine know-how that I sopped up like a
person who'd never heard of how chivalry was just another nefarious masculine
scheme to keep women in their place.”
―
Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
“I'm
trying to be a man like a woman”
―
Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
“Like
most women you are riddled with the missionary instinct, that always seeks to
change a man's nature and make it a little higher than the angels; whereas a
man knows he can't remake any woman, and if his wife doesn't suit him, he
accepts her as she is or goes out and finds another.”
―
R.A. Dick, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
“...tall
women of Swedish descent attract attention that's way out of proportion to our
relative importance to the world.”
―
Nancy Pickard, Bum Steer
“In
my early twenties, it had never occurred to me that the women who gained their
power from beauty were indebted to the men whose desire granted them that power
in the first place. Those men were the ones in control, not the women the world
fawned over.”
―
Emily Ratajkowski, My Body
“Women
have always been at par with men when it comes to their abilities; it is just
that both men and women are gifted differently. Women are more intelligent,
while men exhibit traits of being intellectuals. Hypothetically if there is a
weighing scale to weigh the abilities of what men can achieve and women can
achieve, I am confident that the scale will be balanced. I think creating such
awareness will do much good rather than reclaiming equality which naturally
exists”
―
Henrietta Newton Martin, Legal Counsel & Author
