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A NEW CONQUEST always had a wonderful effect on Charlie. He became overnight generous, understanding, inexhaustibly good-humored, relaxed, kind to cats, dogs, and strangers, expansive, and compassionate.
— John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever
One can't do anything without a man. Men know so much, and are able to get information in so many ways that are simply impossible to women.
— Agatha Christie
It might well appear to Sir Walter that there had been no quarrel. It was often the case that gentlemen did not observe the signs.
— Susanna Clarke
He was, he admitted, a man who liked to have his cake and eat it too.
— Colleen McCullough, The Touch
The measure of a man is determined by how he responds to the truth of God.
— Dr. J. Otis Yoder, When You Pray
The measure of a man is not so much how tall he stands but how low he kneels.
— Dr. J. Otis Yoder, When You Pray
I only want one thing of men, and that is, that they should leave me alone.
— D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
Men are so inevitably mad that not to be mad would be to give a mad twist to madness.
— Blaise Pascal, Human Happiness
...he's just so out-of-this-world. They don't make them like that anymore.
— Camilla Isley, I Wish for You
Gentleman: An imaginary creature found in Jane Austen novels.
— Natalya Vorobyova
...then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer.
— Anaïs Nin
If you can tag every Pakistani men as terrorists, you can definitely tag every Indian men as rapists... That's how the minority make an identity for the nation.
— Gayathri Jayakumar
Gentlemen do not carry a cane or a hat? No gloves?”“Gentleman may still wear them, but I’m afraid the problem is that there aren’t many left.
— Camilla Isley, I Wish for You
Let me be the type man who plants a field of flowers so you can be the type of woman who picks them.
— A.J. Compton, The Counting-Downers
Men may fight the battle, but women wage the war.
— Katlyn Charlesworth, The Patriot's Daughter
When two men live together they usually maintain a kind of shabby neatness out of incipient rage at each other. Two men alone are constantly on the verge of fighting, and they know it.
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Honest men cannot be expected to anticipate the actions of scoundrels.
— Mary Street, The Confession of Fitzwilliam Darcy
In a field where else you found a stackof revealing nature photographs, of supernude naturephotographs, split beaver of course nature photographs,photographs full of 70s bush, nature taking comefrom every man from miles around, nature with come backto me just dripping from her lips. The stack cameup to your eye, you saw: nature is big into bloodplay,nature is into extreme age play, nature does wild inter-racial, nature she wants you to pee in her mouth, natureis dead and nature is sleeping and still nature is on all fours,a horse it fucks nature to death up in Oregon, nature is hotyoung amateur redheads, the foxes are all in their holesfor the night, nature is hot old used-up cougars, naturemakes gaping fake-agony faces, nature is consensual dad-on-daughter, nature is completely obsessed with twins,nature doing specialty and nature doing niche, exotic femalesthey line up to drip for you, nature getting paddled as hardas you can paddle her, oh a whitewater rapid with her assin the air, high snowy tail on display just everywhere.
— Patricia Lockwood, Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
See men for miles around give nature what she needs,rivers and rivers and rivers of it. You exhale with perfecthappiness. Nature turned you down in high school. Now you can come in her eye.
— Patricia Lockwood
I am sorry to tell you this thing. Youu are a good man, and a pretty thing. But still, you are only a man. All you have to offer the world is your anger.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
As long as I can remember, male candy eaters have been ill-used, misunderstood, and denigrated, in films and on television, as weak, self-indulgent, soft, effeminate, undisciplined, and venal. Most of us have been driven underground. We eat our candy alone and on the sly. We never experience the intimacy of sharing candy with others—unless we have chosen our mates wisely.
— Jeffrey Steingarten, It Must've Been Something I Ate: The Return of the Man Who Ate Everything
No good will remain unrewarded, if not by men, then by God.
— Sunday Adelaja
I suggest he starts introducing himself as "Lessman"; he is classless, tactless, and mannerless.
— Natalya Vorobyova
Armando was the only man who'd been patient enough to chase after me. After he had caught me, he'd done what every man loves to do when he has found the woman of his dreams: take her for granted.
— Josefina López, Hungry Woman in Paris
The Beta Male is seldom the strongest or the fastest, but because he can anticipate danger, he far outnumbers his Alpha Male competition. The world is led by Alpha Males, but the machinery of the world turns on the bearings of the Beta Male.
— Christopher Moore
He will be a small man inside," said Mma Ramotswe. "He will feel small and unimportant. That is why he needs to put ladies down, Mma. Men who are big inside never feel the need to do that.
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
The misery of sleep is beyond the understanding of men.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Flo Owens: You liked him, didn't you Helen? Helen Potts: Yes, I did. I got so used to things as they were: Everything so prim, the geranium in the window, the smell of mama's medicines. And then he walked in, and it was different! He clomped through the place like he was still outdoors. There was a man in the place and it seemed good!
— Daniel Taradash
There are many men but rare fathers
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Every man's measurement is determined by his responses when he is on his knees before God.
— Dr. J. Otis Yoder, When You Pray
But too often men react to women in positions of power with misogyny, often in sexualized terms. I have heard men in such situations talk about how "I'd like to fuck that bitch and teach her a lesson," for example. That kind of reaction demonstrates that no matter what the class position of a man and woman, men can use the weapon of sexualized violence to attempt to assert their dominance.
— Robert Jensen
This dissociation from the body extends to emotional disengagement. Without access to his feelings a man can’t help but lose track of who he is, what his priorities are and what is normal for him.
— Mary Crocker Cook, Codependency & Men
It was common knowledge that big, bad city boys spent the bulk of their time sleeping around, coiffing their hair and posting pictures of food on the internet.
— Gena Showalter, The Closer You Come
Men are always ready to fight
—  it's tenderness that scares them.
If there are not mothers, where will men come from and who will feed them?
— Debasish Mridha
She can't have understood you: you are so utterly different from ordinary men. That's what I liked about you when I first saw you
—  I felt at once that you weren't like everybody else.
In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her. And 50, at an age when it would appear - since one seeks in love before everything else a subjective pleasure - that the taste for feminine beauty must play the larger part in its procreation, love may come into being, love of the most physical order, without any foundation in desire. At this time of life a man has already been wounded more than once by the darts of love; it no longer evolves by itself, obeying its own incomprehensible and fatal laws, before his passive and astonished heart. We come to its aid; we falsify it by memory and by suggestion; recognising one of its symptoms we recall and recreate the rest.
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
It's a very special talent that men have, to possess seeing eyes yet be so blind.
— David Mitchell
During the years he was never sick, except of course for the chronic indigestion which was universal, and still is, with men who live alone, cook for themselves, and eat in solitude.
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
It is very likely that men who are more gender role identified would never be seen as codependent because so many of their gender role traits are “normal” for an avoidantly attached codependent. Men with gender role conflict may pre-sent as more anxious, in general, and are more likely to be identified as codependent.
— Mary Crocker Cook, Codependency & Men
Oh, sweet! New man meat’s made it to town, y’all. Let’s gobble.
— Gena Showalter, The One You Want
Ah! That glance of yours did some magic on me, you were not aware of. For once I died and was reborn. To put it simple you did (CRL+ALT+DELETE) to my mind!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Men are destined to love woman, not to expect love but just to love them.
— M. T. Panchal, Karma and Redemption
My momma says we don’t need a man to do our chores for us, ’cause we are smart and capable and I believe her even though Sara’s mom says men were born to be our slaves, we just have to know how to manage them.
— Gena Showalter, The One You Want
He was here! And he was performing live and in-person girl porn—household tasks!
— Gena Showalter, The One You Want
Ah! That glance of yours did some magic on me, you were not aware of. For once I died and was reborn. To put it simply: you did (CRL+ALT+DELETE) to my mind!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
It is everything that makes a man. It is everything that makes this man. And that is who I am alive, and that is who I am dead.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
Since he had given up men he had taken up geography. He visited a new sight or a new neighborhood nearly every weekend.
— Caleb Crain, Necessary Errors
Watching him walk off was very nearly as absorbing as observing his approach. He walked as all men ought to walk, with a decided swagger to his shoulders.
— Susanna Kearsley, A Desperate Fortune
When a man of sense comes to marry, it is a companion whom he wants, and not an artist. It is not merely a creature who can paint, and play, and sing, and draw, and dress, and dance; it is a being who can comfort and counsel him; one who can reason and reflect, and feel, and judge, and discourse, and discriminate; one who can assist him in his affairs, lighten his cares, sooth his sorrows, strengthen his principles, and educate his children.” – Hannah More
— Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
Mills was experienced enough to understand what gay men were often forced to be in this world: romantic opportunists.
— Christopher Bollen, Orient
His voice was soft but deep, and it sounded like history.
— Jason Miller, Down Don't Bother Me
Wars bring the best out of men, it can b good for some, bad for others but it is the best that man can offer
— Nauman Khan
Women had cup sizes to track their development. Men had a ruler and hope.
— Christopher Bollen, Orient
There's no way that you're real,” she murmured to his crotch.
— Rose Wynters, My Wolf Fighter
The air smelled like testosterone and manflesh again. (That was a thing, right?)
— Gena Showalter, The One You Want
There is a great difference between a gift given freely, and one that's meant to tie you to a man.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
When I consider the men (like my father) I have treated in psychotherapy, I recognize the challenge I face as a counselor. These men are in counseling due to an insistent wife, troubled child or their own addiction. They suffer a lack of connection with the people they say they love most. Chronically accused of being over controlling or emotionally absent, they feel at sea when their wives and children claim to be lonely in their presence. How can these people feel “un-loved” when (from his perspective) he has dedicated his life to their welfare?Some of these men will express their lack of vitality and emotional engagement though endless service. They are hyperaware of the moods, needs and prefer-ences of loved ones, yet their self-neglect can be profound. This text examines how a lack of secure early attachment with caregivers can result in the tendency to self-abandon while managing connections with significant others. Their anxiety and distrust of the connection of others will manifest in anxious monitoring, over-giving, passive aggressive approaches to anger and chronic worry. For them, failure to anticipate and meet the needs of others equals abandonment.
— Mary Crocker Cook, Codependency & Men
Dissociation from the body and emotions – numbness – is a basic requirement of the male ideal. Hardy and Hough point out that the patriarchal culture’s influence is so strong on this point that it interferes with men ever recognizing that pain is a normal indicator of a problem. And as the pain or discomfort increases, men are forced to choose between two problematic alternatives:If I admit I’m sick then I must do something about it. That may entail seeing a doctor which implies I’m weak, not in control of myself, not tough enough.However, if I don’t get help, I’ll get sicker and more vulnerable, really helpless
— Mary Crocker Cook, Codependency & Men
Men today cannot claim their identity via culture because they are obliged to find other uninitiated males as their models or succumb to the empty values of a materialistic society. Again, before healing may begin, men must acknowledge the reality of what lies within. Among those confusing emotions is a deep grief for the loss of the personal father as companion, model and support, and a deep hunger for the fathers as a source of wisdom, solace and inspiration.
— James Hollis, Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men
Our society has long treated men as machines, as bodies expendable in the name of progress or profit. Men have overruled their pain and soul's delight, taught to think of themselves as "mechanisms". Such an estrangement wounds very deeply; it has gone on so long and is so taken for granted that healing individuals, let alone a whole gender, is a dubious undertaking. But the beat goes on, the Saturnian shadow lives, the only game in town, and shame on the defector. The wounding is institutionalized and sanctified, and men unwittingly collude in their own crucifixion.
— James Hollis, Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men
There is a way that the men speak to women that reminds me too much of Pa. They listen just long enough to issue instructions. They don’t even look at women when women are speaking. They look at the ground and bend their heads toward the ground.
— Alice Walker
When men feel the wound that cannot heal, they either bury themselves in woman's arms and ask her for healing, which she cannot provide, or they hide themselves in macho pride and enforced loneliness.
— James Hollis, Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men
Surely the greatest tragedy for men in regard to the feminine principle is that their fear alienates them from their own anima, the principle of relatedness, feeling and connection to the life force. This alienation from self obliges alienation from other men as well. Often their only connection with each other comes through superficial talk about outer events, such as sports and politics.
— James Hollis, Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men
I detest these underdone men, he thought coldly. Boiled looking! Ought to be shoved back in the oven; just one more minute would do it.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
In every little boy child is hidden a great man
—  in every little girl child is hidden as great woman. God hides great things in little things and it takes the Holy Spirit of God get them unveil!
There was no arguing with a man when he started saying thing like that -- using logic as a weapon.
— Sally Wentworth, Marriage by Arrangement
To leave the comforts of home, the mother world, one must have some place to go. Admittedly, the rites of passage of traditional cultures were to initiate the youth into a simpler society, a more homogenous culture than ours. As well, their interest lay not in the individuation of the person but in the integration of the unformed person into the collective definition of tribal masculinity. Still, take away such psychically charged images of identity, take away the wisdom of the elders, take away the community of men, and one has the modern world.
— James Hollis, Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men
There's always a puppet and a puppeteer in a relationship. Take your time to find out which one you are.
— Alamvusha
She influenced by the positivism of her race, was gazing into the future. While he was content with the present moment, not caring to know what would be the end of their love
— Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
You’re going to work in this life, and you’re going to play. And when the last days come, you’ll look back and find that that’s all there was, an endless stream of days going back to today. But if you can find the thing you should be doing, the thing that makes you you, and if you can make that thing yours, then you’ve beaten the game. Most men don’t, but the point is to try
— Eric Garcia, The Repossession Mambo
Victory is in our hands! It's time for our legends to begin! Don't tremble, and don't you dare cry! Come on, show some energy!
— Nobuyuki Fukumoto, Saikyō Densetsu Kurosawa 10
Women are almost two thirds more likely than men to believe in God, a major study of attitudes among middle aged Britons has found, says The Telegraph. Well, men are twice more likely than God to believe in women! (At least that was so in the Garden of Eden)
— R. N. Prasher
Being shot at for years by men of a particular nationality will tend to impact negatively upon one’s view of them.
— John Connolly, A Song of Shadows
In general, I have noticed that many Codependent men have adopted a “self” based on either an exaggerated male gender role or a reaction to a gender role conflict. The challenge when working with male codependents is to address their gender role exaggeration or conflict directly to see how this gender role “self” has been created as a result of early attachment disruption.
— Mary Crocker Cook, Codependency & Men
Few men realize how much of their lives are lived in pursuit of the values our culture has traditionally associated with masculinity. These values – a primary focus on work, logical thinking and always being in emotional control – have many benefits to men and their families. When taken to extremes, the pursuit of traditional masculine values becomes a cage for feelings, a stranglehold on life itself.
— Mary Crocker Cook, Codependency & Men
There was so much testosterone in the air, I felt like I needed a gas mask.
— Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
History chews up sexually uncertain boys, and spits us out as recycled, generic greeting cards for lonely old men.
— Andrew  Smith, Grasshopper Jungle
Men who thought of themselves as gods fell the farthest, and the hardest.
— Nenia Campbell, Cease and Desist
I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ever talked like this, if their sorrows ever spilled into these secret cadences.
— Esmeralda Santiago, When I Was Puerto Rican
According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual.
— Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
The women’s entire education should be planned in relation to men. To please men, to be useful to them, to win their love and respect, to raise them as children, care for them as adults… these are women’s duties in all ages and these are what they should be taught from childhood.
— Jacques Rousseau
The greatest investment you can do in your life is in gaining time.
— Pratik Patil, Pregnancy and Men
The official recruiting process for their posse began. Because Carlos, Narc, and Trevor each had high SQs, Heeb and Evan reasoned that adding the three to their group would raise the average SQ of each group member (much the way that colleges recruit individuals with higher test scores to increase the average test scores of their matriculated students).
— Zack Love, Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC
She met a dashing man —he was, a dash.
— Timothy Joshua
I would just as soon remain jamona than shed that many tears over a man.
— Esmeralda Santiago, When I Was Puerto Rican
Stars are dusts from wise men.
— Jane Bulos
By exchanging quality time for 'turn-up' times, what many of today's wayward youngsters have become - men and women of the village have failed them.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Dear God, he prayed irreverently, was her blouse even legal?
— Sheri Webber, Dawn Rising
What man wanted a woman without fire, and vice-versa?
— Stewart O'Nan, West of Sunset
Why was he drawn to complicated women, or were all women--all people, finally--complicated?
— Stewart O'Nan, West of Sunset
Would you marry me and love me forever because I'm a man. Think twice and don't complain later. :D
— nugas
What’s a TH?”“A Traffic Hazard,” Heeb clarified.“Oh you mean because the woman is so hot she’ll take your eyes off the road?” Narc confirmed.“Exactly.
— Zack Love, Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC
My lady Silk, remember that a man always gains in stature any way he chooses to associate with a woman - including adultery...but in her association with a man, a woman is always in danger of being diminished.
— Ama Ata Aidoo, Changes: A Love Story
I knew that a man was not only himself but also who he wished to be.
— Stephanie Dray, Lily of the Nile
The words, I love you, are empty without clarification. Women prefer to be told what they can expect. It is measurable like a Weight Watcher’s diet, with extra points at the end of the week if you don’t cheat.
— Shannon L. Alder
On one level, a roomful of men is always a dangerous thing. Competition is usually in the air, so the potential for violence is always nearby.
— Brennan Manning, All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir
It is ironic that even today men are judged by how much they have and women by how they look while both should be judged by how they act.
— Sabine Shah
What’s SQ?” asked Evan.“Sexual Quotient.”“What’s that?”“Basically, it’s your odds of getting laid. Everyone has an SQ. just like everyone has an IQ.”“I’ve never heard that term before.”“That’s because I made it up.”“That figures. Finally applying your actuarial skills to what really matters, eh?
— Zack Love, Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC
They say “as brave as lion”, they say “as clever as fox”, they say “ as friendly as dog” but nobody says “as something good as man”.
— Amit Kalantri
...the man to love rarely coincides with the hour of loving.
— Thomas Harris, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oh. Well was this your first time painting a live model?”She nodded her head, with an almost guilty look on her face.“What’s it like?”“Hard,” she replied.
— Zack Love, Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC
Sometimes she thought the Creator had only made men to cause trouble for women.
— Robert Jordan
It does seem - well, difficult - to be at the mercy of some gross, unshaven stranger before you can begin to be yourself.
— James     Baldwin
Many men understand and appreciate that seduction first makes women feel uncomfortable. What these men do instead is focus on comfort first.What these men don't realize is that women of beauty get bombarded by these nice guys every day, and it can grow quite tiresome. While not as offensive as these seducer, the nice guy is no less a bother. There are simply too many nice guys approaching them in a day to indulge in the same old lengthy dialogue time after time. Without attraction first, simply saying, "Hi, I'm Joe. What's your name?" will smack of every nice guy before you. Why would a woman who isn't attracted to you care what your name is or bother to even remember it? Why would she divulge personal information just because you asked?
— Mystery, The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed
And as their penile pain began to subside, the two men were able to form more complex thoughts, resulting in a collaborative work: the development of a worldview that might be described as “penilosophy.
— Zack Love, Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC
But despite these and many other differences, Evan and Heeb had become close friends – an improbability that could have been produced only by the even greater improbabilities that brought them together.
— Zack Love, Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC
She had a theory that the fear of getting in trouble was what made her not as good a programmer and that, in fact, it was all linked to testosterone, and that was why there were more guy programmers than women. It was a very hazy theory, and she didn't like it, but she had pretty much convinced herself it was true, although she couldn't bear to think of sharing it with anybody, because it was a lot better to think that there were social reasons why girls didn't usually become code monkeys than to think there were biological reasons.
— Maureen F. McHugh, After the Apocalypse
You don't walk away to prove your worth. You walk away because you allowed someone else to dictate your value and you found yourself believing it.
— Shannon L. Alder
Maybe he wouldn't say anything, which is the worst thing men do.
— Miranda July, The First Bad Man
It was pride that changed angels into devils
—  it is humility that makes men as angels.
The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch their own inspiration from theirs.
— Plato
I’m an anchor and he is the sea and I sink into his tenderness as he presses my hand to his heart.
— Sarah Noffke, Awoken
The mirror of life shows you woman or man,But in the heart of the Soul you are neither. This is why Love is blind.
— C.C. Campbell, The Stolen Light of Women: A Quest for Spiritual Truth Beyond Religion
I look in the glass sometimes at my two long, cylindrical bags (so picturesquely rugged about the knees), my stand-up collar and billycock hat, and wonder what right I have to go about making God's world hideous. Then wild and wicked thoughts come into my heart. I don't want to be good and respectable. (I never can be sensible, I'm told; so that don't matter.) I want to put on lavender-colored tights, with red velvet breeches and a green doublet slashed with yellow; to have a light-blue silk cloak on my shoulder, and a black eagle's plume waving from my hat, and a big sword, and a falcon, and a lance, and a prancing horse, so that I might go about and gladden the eyes of the people. Why should we all try to look like ants crawling over a dust-heap? Why shouldn't we dress a little gayly? I am sure if we did we should be happier. True, it is a little thing, but we are a little race, and what is the use of our pretending otherwise and spoiling fun? Let philosophers get themselves up like old crows if they like. But let me be a butterfly.
— Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
Men’s economic privilege, their social value, the prestige of marriage, the usefulness of masculine support—all these encourage women to ardently want to please men. They are on the whole still in a state of serfdom. It follows that woman knows and chooses herself not as she exists for herself but as man defines her. She thus has to be described first as men dream of her since her being-for-men is one of the essential factors of her concrete condition.
— Simone de Beauvoir
Men. They don't ask for directions, but they'll ask a demon for a favor.-Nina
— Karen Greco, Tainted Blood
The boys on the front had magazines with pinups, and they talked about how one day they would score women like that, but they’re kids. They don’t know what love is. Here they learn what hate is, and I am so sad that they might never know love because hate came first. Maybe they will miss out on having a woman like you, and I feel sorry for them.
— A.S. King, Everybody Sees the Ants
Dating a man is like flying a kite. You only need to know when to wind up the string or let it out.
— Jenna Alatari
You cannot penalize a man for one slip. Then she lay wondering about the word slip. When you slip, you fall, but maybe it is not such a sore fall because you have slipped.
— Jackie Kay, Wish I Was Here
Women who say that they have met the most amazing guy in the world are only saying that because they haven’t lived with them yet.
— Heather Chapple, Write like no one is reading
A man worth loving is a man that never makes you feel like an option.
— Shannon L. Alder
You must stay away from the one who brings nothing but heartache and death. Do you hear me? He brings nothing but death. Always has.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Pure
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 that is specifically being avoided, the tone being applied to the overt conversation, the buried conversation that is being covered only in subtext, and finally the other person's body language.That is, on many levels, astounding to me. I mean, that's like having a freaking superpower. When I, and most other people with a Y chromosome, have a conversation, we're having a conversation. Singular. We're paying attention to what is being said, considering that, and replying to it. All these other conversations that have apparently been going on for the last several thousand years? I didn't even know that they ~existed~ until I read that stupid article, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.
— Jim Butcher, Cold Days
The Fool held his breath. On long nights on the hard flagstones he had dreamed of women like her. Although, if he really thought about it, not much like her; they were better endowed around the chest, their noses weren’t so red and pointed, and their hair tended to flow more. But the Fool’s libido was bright enough to tell the difference between the impossible and the conceivably attainable, and hurriedly cut in some filter circuits.
— Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
Why do beautiful women love ugly men?
— Jill Lepore, The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Men think they like to be challenged. The truth is, they only like to be challenged if they win.
— Karen Hawkins, How to Capture a Countess
And it struck me that maybe True magazine had been wrong. Maybe there are no New Men. Maybe there are only the living and the dead, and all those who are living deserve each other and are equal to each other.
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You
I'm going to treat myself to one of these as a reward for not knocking himself unconscious with a skillet.
— Nora Roberts
It's because his wife left him. That's why he's acting funny. She left him the other night. While she was putting her bags into the taxi he was outside on the footpath begging her to stay. On his knees! Why are men so embarrassing?Bev
— Louis Nowra, Summer Of The Aliens
A bit of sniffles and men are more work than a brood of babies.
— Nora Roberts
I should have known he’d be trouble as soon as he walked into my workshop, but I couldn’t have known he’d be the death of me.
— Pippa DaCosta
In relationships, when a person gets angry, it is really just hurt in disguise.  So men, consider this the next time the woman you are with gets angry with you.  She is most likely just hurt and needs you to hold her and reassure her. 
— Lisa Bedrick, Relationships
Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men’s unsupported overconfidence.
— Rebecca Solnit
A woman is a mother, daughter, and sister of every man; how she could be wrong?
— Debasish Mridha
Women most often have a difficult enemy and she is a woman and not a man.
— Debasish Mridha
Women dream a lot and man is the prince of that dream land.
— Debasish Mridha
By nature men are uncontrollable and wild, and it should be, but women have the key to control them, if they know how to use it.
— Debasish Mridha
The creator created women to control those wild, uncontrollable, intriguing men.
— Debasish Mridha
Woman wants control, man self-control .
— Immanuel Kant
An intelligent man wants to ultimately spend his life with a woman with whom he knows he shares complimentary energies with. He wants to feel like him and his woman are solid, because nothing can throw them off base, because the flow of their connection is just so grounded, that nothing can come in between that— not reason, not logic, not lies, not insecurities, not doubts and not fears. Men don't talk about this, but this is what intelligent men innately crave, and they don't want anything less. They want something solid. They don't want to be with women who want to be with guys who don't respect them or who try to make them jealous all the time; they don't want to be with women who need to feel like there's a game that's being played. So, contrary to popular belief, men do want something real, even more real than what many women dream of! And it's not about other people and what they think is real; it's about just him and her and what they know is real. But you can never fake making a man believe this is the kind of connection that you have with him, because you can't fake energies! At the end of the day, if you're that woman, then you're that woman and he's that man for you. Your connection through your energies will just flow through everything— walls, distance, time, fears— you'll be solid.
— C. JoyBell C.
If a women ask for respect instead of earning it then they are weak.
— Swapnil Kumar
I noticed a phenomenon that doesn't often happen toa man: several women turned round as he passed them.
— Patrick Modiano
In the street below, a posh-looking drunk man is reading the card of a prostitute, Blue-Tacked up by a doorbell. He’s examining it with all the forensic care I presume he puts into reading a wine list.‘What are you looking for?’ I ask him, in my head. ‘What woman will go best with your main course of terrible, horny loneliness?’I speculate, briefly, on how different the world would be if it were run by women. In that world, if you were a lonely, horny woman – as I am. As I always am – you’d see Blu-tacked postcards by Soho doorways that read, ‘Nice man in cardigan, 24, will talk to you about The Smiths whilst making you cheese-on-toast + come to parties with you. Apply within.
— Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl
On a day like this, we women would be completely and utterly happy just to have a man hold our cold hands and massage our aching backs. We'd be so blissfully happy we wouldn't know what to do with ourselves. Men are never happy unless they're trying to do the impossible. It's why they roam about the world trying to conquer it.
— Kim Dong Hwa
Men let women down. Over and over again. I'ts what they're programmed to do.
— Liz Jensen
The battle with Men Who Explain Things has trampled down many women — of my generation, of the up-and-coming generation we need so badly, here and in Pakistan and Bolivia and Java, not to speak of the countless women who came before me and were not allowed into the laboratory, or the library, or the conversation, or the revolution, or even the category called human.
— Rebecca Solnit
Men were like horses, she mused dreamily. All they needed was breaking in.
— Margaret Way, Master of Maramba
The Every Single Women to whom I met they are not happy with their men, and the men either not happy with their women!
— sid
Become what you would want to marry ,as in, become like the person that you would want to marry.
— Lisa Bedrick, To Christian Women
View your body as something God has entrusted into your care.
— Jim George, One-Minute Insights for Men
Women may be better than men but not not even God can beat a Real Man
— Swapnil Kumar
We are weary of being without gold in the midst of plenty. We wish to become men of means.
— George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon
There are so many torturous things in this life. Don't let a man who doesn't love you be one of them.
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
If there were no women then men would still be living in the jungle.
— Debasish Mridha
A woman always wants to change her man but a man wants her to be unchanged.
— Debasish Mridha
Women often forget that the man she is complaining about is a creation of a mother like her.
— Debasish Mridha
The true wealth of a man is not what's in his pocket, but what's in his heart.
— Unarine Ramaru
I never can imagine that a woman can do anything wrong, if they do then man made her to do it.
— Debasish Mridha
Most often women want happiness and men want wilderness.
— Debasish Mridha
For women, men creates war, even though women are the symbols of love, peace, and harmony.
— Debasish Mridha
Women are lot more stronger then men, not just mentally but even physically, not only do they look beautiful in any form, but are also blessed with there caring nature which they have by birth.. What do men need more then this to respect a women??? Handling a family is equivalent to handling a big corporate office.. N she does it very well..Respect her beauty by praising it n don't dis-respect it by passing dirty comments.. Some mentally ill men RAPE a women, but dis-respect every women including there mother n sisters with this act... and cause of such mentally ill men, every man is ashamed of being a Male/Man..
— honeya
The fundamental difference between the sexes is this: men make assumptions, but women rarely do.
— Stephen King, Revival
Half the headaches in a man’s life involve a women and half the heartaches in a women life are because of a men.
— Novoneel Chakraborty, That Kiss In The Rain
Men can be teenagers until well into their twenties. That is well known
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café
The trait I regard most highly in a man is kindness. Thoughtful, consistent kindness. All other qualities—whether charming, witty, handsome, enterprising, powerful, seductive, or ingenious—wither in comparison to a truly kind man.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
If the ultimate goal is lasting love, women are going to have to become comfortable with sacrifice and capitulation. Because those are the underpinnings of a long-term marriage – for both sexes.
— Suzanne Venker
All men are what they are by reasons of the laws they keep and the thoughts they think.
— Ogwo David Emenike
What was it with gay men and art photos of nude male torsos?
— David     Pratt, Looking After Joey
Men will not save women for nothing, but themselves. Women have to save themselves.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
You may want the alpha, but the alpha has his pick.
— Donna Lynn Hope
But what's 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 must either coax or be disagreeable. I scorn to coax men for what I wish. Therefore, I must be disagreeable.
— Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs
Women have always moaned about men...but it turns out that their deepest complaints are reserved for one another, because while they expect men to be fickle, treacherous, and weak, they judge their own sex by higher standards, they expect more from their own sex--loyalty, understanding, trustworthiness, love....
— Salman Rushdie
That's the lovely thing about men, there's no guesswork involved when it comes to arousal.
— Belinda McBride, An Uncommon Whore
We need more men to sit at the table... at the kitchen table.
— Sheryl Sandberg
Men marry. Women wed.
— Raheel Farooq
But it's natural for men to compete against each other. We've been doing it since the cave days. Why else do we have wars? Wars are competition, no matter what the politicians call them.
— Iris Johansen
How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.
— Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds
Men wouldn't lie that much to the women in their life, if the women don’t ask so many questions.
— Aman Jassal, Rainbow - the shades of love
He wanted a father, and for the same reason, he wanted to be a father.
— Ian McEwan, Atonement
As long as you know most men are like children, you know everything.
— Coco Chanel
Patience is important for a man, vital for a leader
— James Clavell, Shogun    Part 1 Of 3
All men have a soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The only things that all men want is a woman that respects him and challenge his intelligence plus ambitions.
— Unarine Ramaru
It is a myth that women are the more complicated sex. Men too, have their moods and whims. They too, respond to every gauntlet that is thrown at them, either overtly or covertly.
— Sandhya Jane, Second Spring
Maslow did not make two different pyramids, one for men and one for women. He did not differentiate in identifying what men want and what women want.
— Shahla Khan, Friends With Benefits: Rethinking Friendship, Dating & Violence
In this world, two ilk of men exist-those who think they don't need to, and those who think they must. A third alien type exists when indecisiveness is involved.
— Solange nicole
Men did not like women to weep. It reminded them of their own failings.
— Kameron Hurley, Rapture
I suppose I could understand it if men had simply forgotten unicorns, or if they had changed so that they hated all unicorns now and tried to kill them when they saw them. But not to see them at all, to look at them and see something else-what do they look like to one another, then? What do trees look like to them, or houses, or real horses, or their own children?
— Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
Women rule the world
—  we just let our men think they do.
Liberating ourselves from the traditional strictures of marriage altogether, and/or transforming those strictures to include all of us -- gay, feminist, career-focused, baby crazy, monogamous, non-monogamous, skeptical, romantic, and everyone in between -- is the challenge facing this generation. As we consciously opt out or creatively reimagine marriage one loving couple at a time, we'll be able to shift societal expectations wholesale, freeing younger generations from some of the antiquated assumptions we've faced (that women always want to get married and men always shy away from commitment, that gender parity somehow disempowers men, that turning 30 makes an unmarried woman into an old maid).
— Courtney E. Martin, Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists
I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings
—  and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge.
He gave Dancer one last pat. 'You're luckier than you know, pal. Living without a set of balls makes life a lot less complicated.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Heroes Are My Weakness
Stray cats are like two-timing men. He got tired of you and took off. He doesn't find anyone new? He'll come slinking back. By then, if you're smart, you'll have decided you're better without him.
— Kelley Armstrong, Visions
If you don’t have something grand for men like us to be part of, we will take apart all the little things. Neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Building by building. Family by family.
— Dave Eggers, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
Boys dream of strippers, men dream of their women waiting for them at home.
— Kathleen Brooks, Acquiring Trouble
The higher the testosterone, the lower the maturity level.
— Jennifer DeCuir, Wynter's Journey
No man can ever admire a woman the way she admires herself.
— Meeta Ahluwalia
I have this uncanny knack of falling for the most irrelevant men,my love story would be comprising of short stories.
— Pushpa Rana
Home is the best place to teach young men and women about God’s kind of love.
— Elizabeth George, One-Minute Inspirations for Women
The summer kings are gods, and we are finally, in the end, just men.
— Alaya Dawn Johnson, The Summer Prince
If you have to worry about a man, he's not worth worrying about.
— Bill Mego, The Limbus of the Moon
Can't we make a blusterer ourselves? asked Jón Hreggviðsson. Can't we scratch that damned sign with the ax-point onto the chopping block and get a beautiful, chubby woman in here tonight, right now-or preferably three? It was no easy matter to create such a sign, because in order to do so the two men required much greater access to the animal kingdom and the forces of nature than conditions in the dungeon permitted. The sign of the Blusterer is inscribed with a raven's gall on the rust-brown inner side of a bitch's skin, and afterward blood is sprinkled over the skin - blood from a black tomcat whose neck has been cut under a full moon by an unspoiled maiden. Where'd you find an unspoiled maiden to cut a black tomcat's neck asked Jón Hreggviðsson.
— Halldór Laxness, Iceland's Bell
Heaven help us! The girls have only to turn the tables,and say of one of their own sex,'She is as vain as a man,' and they will have perfect reason. The bearded creatures are quite as eager for praise, quite as finikin over their toilets, quite as proud of their personal advantages, quite as conscious of their powers of fascinations, as any coquette in the world.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
At twenty years old, Michael had vague plans to make changes in his life, but turning blue whilst stood in a walk-in bath in an old people's home wasn't one of them. Usually boys of his age might consider changes along the lines of smoking less grass at home, at college or at work, to be a good idea. Or maybe spending less time on that solitary pursuit common to men of his age across the globe. Enjoyable though he found it, he was going to cut back on the procrastination, but that was going to have to wait.
— Dylan Perry, Gods Just Want To Have Fun
Gods are what people worship. Men are what die.
— Alaya Dawn Johnson, The Summer Prince
When it comes to men, I appreciate them, don’t bash them and never love them.
— Donna Lynn Hope
But men are such strange creatures, really. I think most of them would rather we weren’t around at all, so they could just spend time mooning over each other. Hero worship and all that stuff.
— Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
My pa maintained that there are three important parts to a man. You got the heart, the brain, and the python.
— Allan Dare Pearce, Hitler Burns Detroit
Men are mystifying creatures. For instance why do all men think their penis is a panacea for all the world’s problems?
— Tyne O'Connell, Latest Accessory
As for men, they must learn bravery and live for Pleasure and for Beauty. More important than those two things should stand only one thing for him... Honor. A man's honor should be more sacred to him than his life — especially in our age, a time when very few men know what honor is.
— Roman Payne
If you want to have your dreamed husband, you better not wake up; because in real life, all men are assholes.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
The word “idiot” comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed cells in the brain. It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy: men are so obsessed by public affairs that they see the world as by moonlight, which shows the outlines of every object but not the details indicative of their nature.
— Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
I had a dream that boys would act like men for once…then I woke up.
— Starley Ard, Dreaming is for lovers
Well what?” said Peter. He knew but had learned that if there was one advantage to the male sex it was that your obtuseness would never be underestimated; if you pretend you don’t know what the problem is, half the time it just goes away.
— Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove
Beware men with cold hearts and blue lips.
— George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
Most women have low standards. All they strive for is a highly paid man.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups