956 quotes found
“Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular des...”
“We’re like Pavlov’s dog with these mammary glands, and it’s only the threat of jail or some other unthinkable repercussion that keeps us tethered.”
“Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.”
“I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.”
“He really was beautiful. I know boys aren’t supposed to be, but he was.”
“The problem with having problems is that ‘someone’ always has it worse.”
“I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.”
“Men and swords. My father said that if you put any able-bodied man, no matter how peaceful, into a room with a sword and a practice dummy and leave him alone, eventually the man would pick up the s...”
“Men should be what they seem.”
“I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one.”
“I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.”
“A sixty - eight, he wants you to go down on him but he won't return the favor. It would be sixty-nine but he owes you one.”
“Men. If you give them half a chance, they'll fuck you over just to prove they can.”
“I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide their loved ones with material comforts and protection at all times. I forget how dangerously reduce...”
“Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea.”
“To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when sett...”
“He was being about as protective as a can-opener.”
“There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions to these men. They were like the weather, they didn't have a mind. They...”
“Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.”
“He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a performance, for my benefit, to show me he's up-to-date? Maybe men should...”
