gender dynamics quotes

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

Even now I will go to, like, an industry event, and all the ladies will be over here and all the guys over here, and I will go to the guys‘ table and sit because I just feel I can have a much better conversation over there. And that’s automatic; it’s not prejudice.

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

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Men want to make women happy.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

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

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

How do I know about a man’s needs for a sex symbol? I’m a girl.

I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‚See, you did it yourself.‘

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.