Condoms seemed to her inherently wicked. But they were also inherently funny. They were like rubber gloves with only one finger, and every time she saw one she had to be severe with herself or...

Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage them. For instance, men often faint at the sight of...

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

Why is it honesty when a man speaks his mind and madness when a woman does?

I saw my reflection in their eyes, but not the men themselves, not clearly. This preserved the idea that all intelligent and even vaguely attractive men were essentially good. Delusion detest focus and romance provides...

You may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.

Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.

Most men overestimate themselves. It’s the only way they can reproduce. It’s why we’re all here, us humans. Overestimation.

Poor men have grown to be rich men,And rich men grown to be poor again,And I am running to Paradise.

I think we’re avoiding the most important question here. What matters most. What means the most to men like us.” Conall growled at Billy Dunwich’s sincere face. “I am not telling you if she swallows.”Dunwich...

Oba-sans, to put it in somewhat difficult terms, are life-forms that have stopped evolving. And anyone can turn into an Oba-san. Young women, of course, but even young men, even middle-aged men —even children. You...

The only things that all men want is a woman that respects him and challenge his intelligence plus ambitions.

Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.

I gave my heart to a man who loved me, who wanted to be with me. Who ultimately was afraid of all I offered.I didn’t understand why he sabotaged our future at the time –...

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

Sie töten so gerne Tiere, weil es unter Strafe steht, Menschen umzubringen, und weil sie doch so gerne auslöschen, am liebsten sich. Wie die Augen blind werden, im Augenblick des Übergangs von einem beseelten Lebewesen...

When words don’t add up in love, it is because of six possible reasons: 1. They are afraid to tell you the truth because you will leave them. 2. They enjoy being a liar or...

I know that you’re selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven’t the nerve of a rabbit, I know you’re a liar and a humbug, I know that you’re utterly contemptible. And the...

Conversation between a princess and an outlaw: “If I stand for fairy-tale balls and dragon bait–dragon bait–what do you stand for?””Me? I stand for uncertainty, insecurity, bad taste, fun, and things that go boom in...

[S]ince you are angry at me without reason, you attack me harshly with, “Oh outrageous presumption! Oh excessively foolish pride! Oh opinion uttered too quickly and thoughtlessly by the mouth of a woman! A woman...

I’m fairly certain that, at this very minute, the [Mars Polar Lander] is floating somewhere around the Neptune feeling tired and cranky and looking for a Holiday Inn.Of course, you’d have to have a heart...

When a man takes a mistress, he doesn’t turn around and divorce his wife.

Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, – and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man and free to act as you please

Your skin reminds me of everything beautiful I’ve ever loved…how the moon gets jealous at how you mock her crescent figure with the shape of your mouth…echo of unborn galaxies bounce forth through your vocal...

we are burning like a chicken wing left on the grill of an outdoor barbecuewe are unwanted and burning we are burning and unwanted we arean unwantedburningas we sizzle and fryto the bonethe coals of...

Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in the woman’s womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself from this fusion, and then he rises and goes into the world, into...

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week,...

Mills was experienced enough to understand what gay men were often forced to be in this world: romantic opportunists.

It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic–love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man wanted to be a hot-headed Bruce Willis character, fighting against the evil foreign enemy while...

My love runs by like a day in June, And he makes no friends of sorrows. He’ll tread his galloping rigadoon In the pathway of the morrows. He’ll live his days where the sunbeams start,...

Don’t you think, that there are very few men who know, without raising their voice or changing their tone, to say…what has to be said?

When will women become civilized enough to stop mistreating men? When will they cease from training their lovers to become providers, merely because they have the power to do so?As long as they continue as...

Shouldering the duffel bag with the Marine Corps bulldog, Old Man knocked Jan’s photo off the bed table. He turned to stone staring down at the photo. His face then splintered into hurt. Tears seeped...

Never blame men, they have too many responsibilities because they live in a country where they are being taught to take up the burden since they get an erection.

He said I’m the winning lottery ticket, like he’s never meant anything more.

I saw this beautiful girl the other day. She had an ass behind her that seemed to go on for days. In fact, I’m still going on about her.

Most often women want happiness and men want wilderness.

He’s such a dragHe’s not insaneIt’s just that everybodyHas to feel his pain.

Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority– where he may forget “men who are the rule,” as their exception;– exclusive...

Dentist.

A blanket could be used to divide people. All men who oppose me should get on top of the blanket, and all women who support me would be well advised get naked and get under...

It’s always seemed to me that flirtation is a man’s device for avoiding responsibility. He can say whatever he wants and knows he won’t be taken seriously.

Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman

The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.

Take pride away from a man and you might as well run a knife through his heart.

You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could...

A woman has to look good, but a man—a little bit nicer looking than a monkey is enough.