30,129 Quotes About Men
- Author Adriana Trigiani
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This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.
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- Author Jesmyn Ward
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In every one of the Greeks' mythology tales, there is this: a man chasing a woman, or a woman chasing a man. There is never a meeting in the middle.
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- Author Olivia Parker
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It took nearly a year to finish the ever-changing [marriage candidates] list, with the assistance of his sister and his aging spinster aunt, who lorded over their affairs as the self-appointed voice of cultivated reason. During this time, Gabriel struggled to convince straight-from-Oxford Tristan that he must marry, produce heirs, and maintain the family dukedom for Gabriel himself wouldn't marry. He knew he simply did not have the compulsion to inflict that sort of aggravation on a woman.
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- Author William Trevor
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He should in humility have asked her why it was that he was naturally a cuckold, why two women of different temperaments and characters had been inspired to have lovers at his expense. He should be telling her, with the warmth of her body warming his, that his second wife had confessed to greater sexual pleasure when she remembered that she was deceiving him.
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- Author Patrick Marber
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Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she must come...like a train...but with...elegance.
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- Author Suzy Kassem
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Love is supposed to lift you up, not hold you down. It is supposed to push you forward, not hold you back.
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- Author Bell Hooks
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The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.
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- Author Marguerite Duras
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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 the he becomes one of the children.
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Greatness is the born of ordinary men who decided to work extraordinarily hard.
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