Quotations and Poems

» “The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.”
– Henry Brooks Adams

»  ”As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.”
– Joseph Addison

»  ”A man’s brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women’s brain does.”
– Barbara De Angelis

»  ”Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.”
– Barbara De Angelis

»  ”Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.”
– Minna Antrim

»  ”When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.”
– Minna Antrim

»  ”Women like silent men. They think they’re listening.”
– Marcel Archard

»  ”So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.”
– Aristotle

»  ”If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?”
– Mary Astell

»  ”Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.”
– Lady Nancy Astor

»  ”There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.”
– Jane Austen

»  ”With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.”
– Jane Austen

»  ”Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.”
– Walter Bagehot

»  ”Guys are simple… women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.”
– Dave Barry

»  ”Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely.”
– Basta

»  ”Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.”
– Jean Baudrillard

»  ”Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.”
– John Berger

»  ”Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain’t got.”
– Josh Billings

»  ”While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.”
– Giovanni Boccaccio

»  ”A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

»  ”A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.”
– Julie Burchill

»  ”I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation — they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.”
– Lord Byron

»  ”But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man’s very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.”
– Lord Byron

»  ”A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover — but will sooner or later find a tyrant.”
– Lord Byron

»  ”What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.”
– Lord Byron

»  ”A woman should say: ”Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?” If he does, then it’s the wife’s fault because she is not trying to make him happy.”
– Barbara Cartland

»  ”Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.”
– Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

»  ”I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.”
– Coco Chanel

»  ”A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.”
– Malcolm De Chazal

»  ”A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.”
– Lord Chesterfield

»  ”The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, duties, and pursuits of men and women. Women will not become less gentle and graceful, but men will become more so. Women will not neglect the care and education of their children, but men will find themselves ennobled and refined by sharing those duties with them; and will receive, in return, co-operation and sympathy in the discharge of various other duties, now deemed inappropriate to women. The more women become rational companions, partners in business and in thought, as well as in affection and amusement, the more highly will men appreciate home.”
– Lydia M. Child

»  ”It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.”
– Eugenie Clark

»  ”A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.”
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

»  ”Love is lost in men’s capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds.”
– John Crowne

»  ”Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.”
– George William Curtis

»  ”Men don’t know much about women. We do know when they’re happy. We know when they’re crying, and we know when they’re pissed off. We just don’t know in what order these are gonna come at us.”
– Evan Davis

»  ”Were there no women, men might live like gods.”
– Thomas Dekker

»  ”There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.”
– Denis Diderot

»  ”To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it’s no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.”
– Marlene Dietrich

»  ”Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs.”
– Colette Dowling

»  ”A man’s idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady’s idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.”
– Finley Peter Dunne

»  ”The woman is the home. That’s where she used to be, and that’s where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home — will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because then he becomes one of the children.”
– Marguerite Duras

»  ”Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.”
– Amelia Earhart

»  ”And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.”
– George Eliot

»  ”I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.”
– George Eliot

»  ”I tell you there isn’t a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it’s bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.”
– George Eliot

»  ”Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.”
– George Eliot

»  ”Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

»  ”Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.”
– William Feather

»  ”The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them must be good at taking orders.”
– Linda Festa

»  ”When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.”
– Benjamin Franklin

»  ”Woman submits to her fate; man makes his.”
– Emile Gaboriau

»  ”I must have women — there is nothing unbends the mind like them.”
– John Gay

»  ”Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!”
– John Gay

»  ”It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.”
– Paul Geraldy

»  ”The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.”
– Charlotte P. Gillman

»  ”Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

»  ”Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.”
– Remy De Gourmont

»  ”The woman’s vision is deep reaching, the man’s far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.”
– Betty Grable

»  ”Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.”
– John Gray

»  ”When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.”
– John Gray

»  ”Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.”
– John Gray

»  ”A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.”
– John Gray

»  ”Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilization and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin.”
– Germaine Greer

»  ”Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.”
– Germaine Greer

»  ”I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I’ve always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I’d fall in love with a woman. Damn.”
– Germaine Greer

»  ”Men should be saying ”I want to become a woman.” The world would be a far better place if more men wanted to become women, than women wanted to become men.”
– Albert Halsey

»  ”Women make love for love, men make love for lust.”
– Derrick Harge

»  ”To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.”
– Jane Harrison

»  ”I’m a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it’s true. I am a feminist to a point. But I’m not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men.”
– Goldie Hawn

»  ”The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.”
– Sir Arthur Helps

»  ”Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”
– Katharine Hepburn

»  ”Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.”
– Edward Hoagland

»  ”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. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.”
– Russell Hoban

»  ”The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.”
– Henry James

»  ”Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.”
– Samuel Johnson

»  ”Men and women, women and men; it will never work.”
– Erica Jong

»  ”Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.”
– Michael Korda

»  ”Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.”
– Dilys Laing

»  ”Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions. The woman who rejects the stereotype of feminine weakness and dependence can no longer find much comfort in the clich