Men and Women Quotes

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Henry Adams

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.

Heywood Broun

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Erica Jong

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

Erica Jong

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Jean Kerr

The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man - life and woman - life, man - knowledge and woman - knowledge, man - being and woman - being.

D. H. Lawrence

I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi - scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.

Phyllis McGinley

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, they die earlier.

H. L. Mencken

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

Kate Millett

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

Christopher Morley

Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous.

Erin Pizzey

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

George Santayana

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Oscar Wilde

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What (women) like is to be a man's last romance.

Oscar Wilde