Men
And Women Quotes - Biggest difference between men and women
“Ivanov:
A naive man is a fool. But you women are clever enough to be naive so that it
comes out in you as engaging and healthy and warm, and not so silly as it might
seem. Only why do you all behave like this? While a man is healthy and strong
and in good spirits, you pay him no attention, but as soon as he rolls down the
slippery slope and starts complaining about his woes, you hang on his neck.”
―
Anton Chekhov, Ivanov
“She
had learned from her encounter with Mike Eden that there really was more than
one man in the world-the piece of knowledge that more than anything else
divides women from girls.”
―
Herman Wouk, Marjorie Morningstar
“And
what did I do, only slip my hand inside his own and say that maybe he should
hold my hand instead for a while, and I can see the look on his face even to
this day. The shock and the desire. Oh, I loved the power I had over him! The
power I could sense in myself! You won't understand this but it's something
that every girl realizes at some point in her life, usually when she's around
fifteen or sixteen. Maybe it's even younger now. That she has more power than
every man in the room combined, because men are weak and governed by their
desires and their desperate need for women but women are strong. I've always
believed that if women could only collectively harness the power that they have
then they'd rule the world. But they don't. I don't know why. And for all their
weakness and stupidity, men are smart enough to know that being in charge
counts for a lot. They have that over us at least.”
―
John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies
“A
man who does not doubt the courage of a woman, is a man that is subjugated by
her will and allure.”
―
Lionel Suggs
“I
was interested when Mr. Morton talked in this manner, giving his thoughts on the
way of the world. I knew that most men of his generation fumed at what they
considered lack of propriety and dangerous freedom of modern young women, but
Mr. Morton was above all a fair and just man, without prejudices. I had once
overheard him saying to Colonel Rodsley, 'Certainly I agree with you that women
are not the equals of men, Colonel. But neither are men the equals of women.
They are quite simply different creatures, thank God, and not to be compared.
But that one should be subordinate to the other in the eyes of the law is an
injustice I hope to see rectified before I die.”
―
Madeleine Brent, Tregaron's Daughter
“Sometimes
I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need
to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon
it like Ahab with the White Whale. Women know where it lives but they can let
it alone. Even in matriarchal societies I doubt that there were ever female
Beowulfs. Women lie with gods and demons but they don’t go looking for monsters
to fight with. Ariadne gave Theseus a clew but the Minotaur was his business.”
―
Russell Hoban, Turtle Diary
“It's
disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once
occupied such a prominent place in your bed.”
―
Sue Grafton, J is for Judgment
“Now?
I'm just another female faking orgasms to make a man not feel so inadequate.”
―
Jess C. Scott, Kylie
“I
love being aroused.
I
relish that delicious feeling of freedom, the delirium of being naked, and my
flesh being born again.
It’s
like I’m being made new.”
―
Fiona Thrust, Naked and Sexual
“It
is amazing what a woman can do if only she ignores what men tell her she
can't.”
―
Carol K. Carr, India Black
“It
was the impatience of the way he tore my panties from my body, that really
turned me on: I was all he could think of, as his lust got the better of him.
I
glanced back, and saw the underwear torn and discarded, a little strip of thin
black material on the floor, and thought, Yes, this is the kind of impatient
sex I’m looking for.
The
way they looked so small, and cruelly forgotten, was a beautiful symbol of how
much we both needed to satisfy our lusts.”
―
Fiona Thrust, Naked and Sexual
“I
felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical,
absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.”
―
Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women
“Now,
women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember
everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and
do things accordingly.”
―
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
“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.”
―
Jennifer Armintrout, Ashes to Ashes
