Women And Men Quotes

“The men fight for their thrones and their power and their legacies, but to them, we are nothing more than crickets and ants, insignificant, expandable...What does it matter who wears the crown, if they will not change any of this for us?”
― Ann Liang, A Song to Drown Rivers

“Girls were pure different from fellas. They lit the room with candles, got extra pillows and cushions from upstairs. Big bags of M&M's and Maltesers. Popcorn with lashings of butter.”
― Colin Walsh, Kala

“What attracted men? Good looks? Certainly if a girl was pretty then she tended to get the attention of men; that was beyond any doubt at all. But it was not just prettiness that mattered, because there were many girls who did not look anything special but who seemed to find no difficulty in making men notice them. These girls dressed in a very careful way; they knew which colours appealed to men (red, and other bright colours; men were like cattle in that respect) [...]”
― Alexander McCall Smith, In the Company of Cheerful Ladies

“-« det er den (Kvinnens sjel) som gjør hennes glede mer strålende, og hennes hengivelse og utholdenhet i motgang større enn noen sinne mannens. Han taler og handler, hun lider og tier. Ja, den er vakker, denne viljen til å lide og tie, denne Guds og naturens taushet i henne, den er skapt til å seire i sin stille makt.”
― Camilla Collett, Amtmannens døtre

“If they don't appreciate you at your best, do you think they will do it at your worst? Learn or perish.”
― Emmanuel Apetsi

“No matter how shitty things got for a man, they were always shittier for a woman.”
― Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls

“Women have always been at par with men when it comes to their abilities; it is just that both men and women are gifted differently. Women are more intelligent, while men exhibit traits of being intellectuals. Hypothetically if there is a weighing scale to weigh the abilities of what men can achieve and women can achieve, I am confident that the scale will be balanced. I think creating such awareness will do much good rather than reclaiming equality which naturally exists”
― Henrietta Newton Martin, Legal Counsel & Author

“There was always something going on in the background—some plotting or mulling over some slight or lack of attention, quite unintended, of course, but noted and filed away for subsequent scrutiny. And much of the time men would be unaware of it, until it all came out in a torrent of recrimination and tears.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, blue shoes and happiness (No 1 Ladies Detective Agency

“Women always had private business to raise with men [...] There was always something going on in the background—some plotting or mulling over some slight or lack of attention, quite unintended, of course, but noted and filed away for subsequent scrutiny. And much of the time men would be unaware of it, until it all came out in a torrent of recrimination and tears.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, blue shoes and happiness (No 1 Ladies Detective Agency

“« Det er en kvinnes bestemmelse å oppofre seg.»”
― Camilla Collett, Amtmannens døtre

“Women feel everything deeply but express subtly.”
― Avijeet Das

“The big willow clogging the channel was evidence of the damage men could do, but maybe they would be different if they were allowed on the island. Maybe they would learn to be a little more like women. They wouldn't have to start fires here the way they did at Boneset; they wouldn't have to burn the rotting wood where hen-of-the-woods mushrooms grew. Donkey would have to tell them about all the special care the island needed. Every crevice and swollen place needed a certain treatment--- different in spring than in summer or fall. There were nesting sites to watch out for, broken places in a tree's bark that could be sealed with goop to help the tree survive. The women who had lived on the island all this time moved carefully, tenderly, because there was so much to lose.”
― Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters

“Men, she knew, were not to be trusted. They had their courting face--all politeness, and bows, and compliments, and "May I have this dance?" And then they had the face they wore to stare down at their peas as they avoided the gaze of their wife across the dinner table. Worse still, she knew, she knew, that there were some very respectable, dignified, and exceedingly polite gentlemen who wore quite another face entirely behind closed doors. This was a cruel face of power wielded over another--a horse, a servant, even a wife.”
― Olivia Elliott, A Dangerous Man to Trust?

“But you must remember, Mr. Thornton, no choices are free choices for a lady. We are always compelled in one way or another.”
― Olivia Elliott, A Dangerous Man to Trust?

“When she looked up, he was still gazing at her. Serafina had felt eyes on her before when she had been out in society, and she had never appreciated the feeling. She always felt like a piece of mutton hanging in a shop window, the gentlemen peering through the glass, sizing her up, imagining how she might taste compared to some other piece of meat on offer that day. This was not that feeling.”
― Olivia Elliott, A Dangerous Man to Trust?

“Men want to be a rich man. Women want to get a rich man.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“The men of Sirupat weren't fighters because they didn't want to be, and in my book there's no higher praise than that--and that's the main reason, when you come to think of it, why women are so infinitely superior to men. But for God's sake don't tell them I said so.”
― K.J. Parker, Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead

“If a woman was supposed to be first, she wouldn't have been created second.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“How interesting: that female instinct to duck, to hide, like prey catching sight of glowing eyes in the night. Something inherent in our very genes, our very DNA”
― Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky

“I don't like the way he says that -- Girls -- like we're children being scolded. Some words should be ours to own, at-times-vicious yet tender terms of endearment we toss around like glitter that suddenly taste sour in the mouths of men.”
― Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky

“Language gives us an insight into the way women are viewed in a
male-dominated society . . .
A man is commanding—a woman is demanding.
A man is forceful—a woman is pushy.
A man is uncompromising—a woman is a ball-breaker.
A man is a perfectionist—a woman’s a pain in the ass.
He’s assertive—she’s aggressive.
He strategizes—she manipulates.
He shows leadership—she’s controlling.
He’s committed—she’s obsessed.
He’s persevering—she’s relentless.
He sticks to his guns—she’s stubborn.
If a man wants to get it right, he’s looked up to and respected. If a
woman wants to get it right, she’s difficult and impossible.
If he acts, produces, and directs, he’s called multitalented. If she
does the same thing, she’s called vain and egotistical.”
― Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

“Men are more concerned with keeping unmarried women pure than keeping married women happy.”
― Byrd Nash, Delicious Death

“Men might hunt on horses, but ladies shot game while sitting in chairs around the dining table.”
― Byrd Nash, Delicious Death

“You nitwits think that women need alimony. They don't. They can stand on their own two feet.”
― Avijeet Das

“We are born of women, learn about life from women, and learn to love through women
- yet we violate our women, despise our women, harm our women.

Isn't it time we stood alongside our women, fought fervently for our women?”
― Anubha Saxena

“iven a good time in bed, women turn blind to the faults of their men, how strange!”
― B.S. Murthy, Benign Flame: Saga of Love

“Al terminar de comer, mis hermanos lavan los platos...Reconozco que no son los hombres con los que he vivido dos tercios de mi vida, mi cuñada se ríe y dice que en su casa se reparten las tareas”
― Cho Nam-Joo, Lo que sabe la señorita Kim

“All my life I’d been taught that was the pinnacle of a woman’s purpose — to marry and bear heirs for the kingdom. But somehow, now, hearing it in my own thoughts felt crude, hollow and sad.”
― Dari A. Malaunt, Ashen Embrace (Divine Destinies

“Women have always been at par with men when it comes to their abilities; it is just that both men and women are gifted differently. Women are intelligent, while men exhibit traits of being intellectuals. Hypothetically if there is a weighing scale to weigh the abilities of what men can achieve and women can achieve, I am confident that the scale will be balanced. I think creating such awareness will do much good rather than reclaiming something which naturally exists. To lead effectively one must learn the art of following & must pursue the truth.”
― Henrietta Newton Martin-Legal Professional & Author

“Now that Stack knew a woman, there grew the knowledge that he would never understand women. They could smell rain, read doctors' handwriting, hear the grass growing.”
― Claire Keegan