Quotes of: Men-and-women Keyword

Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works.

Rabbit Redux

Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still.

Rooftop Soliloquy

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

Your life can be different, Young Ju. Study and be strong. In America, women have choices.

A Step from Heaven

It is a severe cruelty inflicted upon women...that we should be the ones who so desperately need love...affection...acceptance. And yet we suffer, many of us, for lack of it throughout our entire lives.

Shackles of Honor

...there are women who devote themselves entirely to their families, their husbands and children, and give up cultivating their femininity. Mother rebelled against that paradigm...[Mr. Gregory's Mother]

Mister Gregory

God, this is why I can never live with women. They go off into corners and think, maybe it’s this, maybe it’s that. Ask, woman. Ask.

To Marry a Prince

Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.

The Moon and Sixpence

As difficult an environment as the DA's Office could be, I saw no overarching conspiracy against women. The unequal treatment was usually more a matter of old habits dying hard.

My Beloved World

I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.

The New Annotated Dracula

Most women have low standards. All they strive for is a highly paid man.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

Just because women can bear children doesn't mean they're unable to harbour the same sort of career ambitions as a man.

Never Too Late

Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.

Looking for Alaska

She did not think it was true that women fell in love all at once, but rather, that they fell in love through repitition, just the way someone became brave.

The Lotus Eaters

Why love has to intense? Women's love isn't. It is a male contribution to a relationship. What does a woman contribute? Children continuity- intentional immortality.

Life... Love... Kumbh...

Women are so caring, kindhearted and soft creatures; I wonder how one could harm or hurt them for any reason.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.

Little Women

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…

Little Women

As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you could not have wept over their trials and laughed over their pleasures.

Little Women

...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.

Little Women

In her secret soul, however, she decided that politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names…

Little Women