the wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a patriarchal world that did not want him to claim his true feelings....

I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn’t identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music. They just wanted...

Just watch any husband arguing with his wife about something insignificant; listen to what they say and watch how their residual emotions manifest when the fight is over. It’s so formulaic and unsurprising that you...

Why is it that all cars are women?” he asked. “Because they’re fussy and demanding,” answered Zee. “Because if they were men, they’d sit around and complain instead of getting the job done,” I told...

Dude, I don’t want to talk about Lacey’s prom shoes. And I’ll tell you why: I have this thing that makes me really uninterested in prom shoes. It’s called a penis.

I would rather trust a woman’s instinct than a man’s reason.

Male egos require constant stroking. Every task is an achievement, every success epic. That is why women cook, but men are chefs: we make cheese on toast, they produce pain de fromage.

Can you imagine a world without men? There’d be no crime, and lots of fat happy women.

Like all men who look this good, Frank has no interest in women.

She is a good girl,” Park said. “You don’t even know her.” His dad was standing, pushing Park toward the door. “Go,” he said sternly. “Go play basketball or something.””Good girls don’t dress like boys,”...

But what is the use of arguing with a man? You belong, Mr. Smith, to a sex devoid of a sense of logic. To bring a man into line, there are just two methods: one...

The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord.” Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. “Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one.

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I’ve discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.

He said, I won’t have one of those things in the house. It gives a young girl a false notion of beauty, not to mention anatomy. If a real woman was built like that she’d...

[…] and unfortunately most women did not seem to have the same urges. Or if they did, they wouldn’t admit it. They probably didn’t, anyway. But if they did they wouldn’t admit it.

Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.

When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and...

look in a man’s face” is a brazen thing to do. They look instead at his feet or his knees.

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...

Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice versa. Gender is specific only to your reproductive organs (and sometimes not even to those), not your...

In 1916, Infants’ and Children’s Wear Review insisted upon pink for boys and blue for girls. In 1939, Parents magazine claimed that pink was a good color for boys because it was a pale version...

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different....

Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.

blatant, intentional discrimination against women is far from being something merely to be read about in history books.

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

Maybe this was a male-female translation problem. I read an article once that said that when women have a conversation, they’re communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they’re actually having, the conversation...

All surgery and no makeup make Jack a dull girl.

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.

…sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man – not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often.

Men are not from Mars and women are not from Venus instead we are all people. Deal with it.

There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.

If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.

When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from...

The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.

Because you’ve got guy parts, you’re automatically a better mechanic than me? I don’t think so,” Eve said, and bailed out of the passenger side.

Women were created from the rib of man to be beside him, not from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled by him, but from under his arm to be...

It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it’s, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy, you have to act like he just built the Taj Mahal.

Were you raised to wear trousers and be a soldier?

When a man plans, a woman laughs.

Bathroom, maybe? Which is where I need to go.””Ooh, me, too,” Eve said. The boys rolled their eyes, like they’d planned it. “What? It’s what girls do. Get over it.

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

He says in his defence he never meddled with married women, only with virgins.

You know, there are several gay men on the faculty. Professor Montag makes jelly beans look colorless(…)

Women leave their marriages when they can’t take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.

He shook his head. “The next time I hear a women going on about how neurotic men are, I’m going to remember this. You tell me you like my body, and what do I say?...

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

She’s a woman, you’re a dude. You’re not supposed to understand her. That’s not what she’s after…. She doesn’t want you to understand her. She knows that’s impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself....

A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.

Women are extraordinary creatures!