Quotes About Men And Women Relationships

#1. Women withhold sex, then men make it boring and soon their marriage is over.

Linda Alfiori

#2. Relationships for women are more than taking off the clothes and wearing them back. It is about attachment of emotions, and feelings, but on the other hand, men are like fast and furious.

M.F. Moonzajer

#3. Men, being accustomed to act on reflection themselves, are a great deal too apt to believe that women act on reflection, too. Women do nothing of the sort. They act on impulse; and, in nine cases out of ten, they are heartily sorry for it afterward.

Wilkie Collins

#4. The male tax?"
"Yeah. The tax that men have to pay for not having to menstruate every month. Or risk getting pregnant. Or deal with the physically stronger sex in a macho world ... Women have to put up with all that stuff, so the least we men can do is pay the male tax and get the tab.

Zack Love

#5. It may be true of all relationships, not only between fathers and sons, but between men and women. Nothing seems fixed. Everything is always changing. We seem to have very little control over our emotional life.

Sherwood Anderson

#6. Men and women sleep not with each other but with the memories, the regrets, the hopes of unions yet to come. Our adulteries are internal; they deepen our aloneness.

George Steiner

#7. The desire for freedom and independence becomes more of an issue for many men in relationships, whereas interdependence and connection become more of an issue for many women.

Deborah Tannen

#8. What man wanted a woman without fire, and vice-versa?

Stewart O'Nan

#9. Men marry. Women wed.

Raheel Farooq

#10. Were men and women ever really just friends?

Jaycee Ford

#11. Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation.

Tiffany Madison

#12. Here's how men think. Sex, work - and those are reversible, depending on age - sex, work, food, sports and lastly, begrudgingly, relationships. And here's how women think. Relationships, relationships, relationships, work, sex, shopping, weight, food.

Carrie Fisher

#13. I beg women to wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don't expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright. And to the men I say be careful with us, please. Be circumspect.

Elisabeth Elliot

#14. 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.

Kevin Hart

#15. Despairing of human relationships (people were so difficult), she often went into her garden and got from her flowers a peace which men and women never gave her.

Virginia Woolf

#16. Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's quality of life.

Helen Fisher

#17. Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.

Steve Buscemi

#18. For many men the denial of dependency on their mother is repeated in their subsequent relationships, sometimes by an absence of any sexual interest in women, sometimes by a pattern of loving and leaving them.

Judith Viorst

#19. Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known. Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#20. Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.

Nelson DeMille

#21. No one can be your sun, moon, or stars until you have your own world.

K.M.Docherty

#22. At the heart of mature masculinity is a sense of benevolent responsibility to lead, provide for, and protect women in ways appropriate to man's differing relationships.

John Piper

#23. It is much easier to condemn Islam and 'oppressive Muslim men' than to unpack the intricate relationships between global politics related to empire building and capitalist expansion as well as regional and national struggles revolving around political and economic power and resources.

Nadje Al-Ali

#24. Without trust, our relationships lack an essential ingredient for emotional intimacy. We need to be able to totally trust our partner with our deepest thoughts, dreams, fears, and secrets.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#25. This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.

Adriana Trigiani

#26. The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations between men and women were all soft kisses and white gowns and hand-holding. But underneath they were a scary, complicated, ugly mess, just waiting to rise to the surface.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#27. I wanted to reach out and stroke her, to be gentle and tender towards her. Take care of her.

James Lusarde

#28. We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes.

Camille Paglia

#29. If others fell by the wayside, dear women and strong, loved by men, how had she, single and unloved, kept her sanity?

Glendon Swarthout

#30. Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.

Tiffany Madison

#31. Literature is reflecting what is happening in life. More and more women are having relationships with younger men. It's partly that women are not losing their figures now.

Helen McCrory

#32. Every woman feels. It just takes the right man to make things combust.

Barbara Delinsky

#33. I'm sorry on behalf of my species.

Kelly Moran

#34. There's a cover for every pot, but I've never seen so many mismatched pots and covers in all my life. - Ellen Wasserfeldman, from Notes from Ellen Wasserfeldman by Alisa Dana Steinberg

Alisa Steinberg

#35. Watching him with one eye, she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.

Mary Doria Russell

#36. I'm a synthesizer. We need to synthesize more the relationships between artists and scientists, and men and women.

Leonard Shlain

#37. The more she turned right the more I turned wrong.

Mark W. Boyer

#38. Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy and clear. Likewise in a relationship, men and women have their own rhythms and cycles.

John Gray

#39. All over the world, relationships between men and women are very, very tricky and very difficult and you don't learn anything. It's not an exact science, so you can't learn anything. You're always going by instinct and your instinct betrays you because you want what you want when you want it.

Woody Allen

#40. Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.

Amy Sedaris

#41. It is assured that men of all ages imagine a woman naked when they first meet.

Tiffany Madison

#42. Men need to hunt. She obviously understands this. She's offering herself as prey. Not easy prey. But willing.

Willow Madison

#43. No woman ever gets given a fur coat for good reasons; if it's not to keep her on her back, it's to get her off his.

Neil Bartlett

#44. In terms of relationships, women often completely over-estimate the confidence of men, and forget about needing to feel validated.

Matthew Hussey

#45. According to this hermeneutic, if we follow what the NT says about the relationships between men and women and husbands and wives, we will not be doing the will of God, for the redemptive movement in Scripture means we must go beyond Scripture to discover God's perfect will.

Benjamin Reaoch

#46. Ladies, you have a ton of power if you just understand the fundamental differences between men and women and unaffectedly play by the rules.

Julieanne O'Connor

#47. Women are the more important members of relationships. Women are the survivors, the nurturers and the bosses, despite men pretending it's a male dominated society.

Ray Martin

#48. I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

Don Henley

#49. Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true partners with women in relationships that are full of excitement, unpredictability, adventure, and loyalty.

Ian K. Smith

#50. To love without ownership, to love with total trust and faith in that very love, to love with the same faith you have that your heart will keep beating moments from now, that is the ultimate love.

Julieanne O'Connor

#51. Women and men are lost in the same labyrinth .. on different floors.

Bogdan Vaida

#52. There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.

Orlando Bloom

#53. Even though she would dream of love, respect, and unfettered romance ... it was a cyclical dilemma in her life that she seemed to be most attracted to poisonous men.

Steve Maraboli

#54. 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.

Patrick Marber

#55. Unfortunately, he still hadn't asked for my number, or a date, or my hand in marriage, and my drink was getting low.

Kimberly Novosel

#56. There's always a puppet and a puppeteer in a relationship. Take your time to find out which one you are.

Alamvusha

#57. Lust, pure gorgeous lust: the sacred energy that elevates us, and makes us feel so special.

Fiona Thrust

#58. Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune.

Bell Hooks

#59. If a woman defined herself solely by the man she was with - and vice versa - the world would be a very shallow and insipid place, indeed.

Nenia Campbell

#60. Public displays of inappropriate behavior are a favorite hobby of mine, a cheap thrill.

Willow Madison

#61. Men's loyalty to their women dies hard - and almost always too late. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

Cornell Woolrich

#62. Be generous, kind and compassionate. These are true characteristics of successful people.

Archie Lee

#63. Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.

Camille Paglia

#64. What would Miss Frost have thought of me? I wondered; I didn't mean my writing. What would she have thought of my relationships with men and women? Had I ever "protected" anyone? For whom had I truly been worthwhile?

John Irving

#65. Despite all of the social advances in women's rights and the push for gender equality in the workplace, it seems like modern men still want a woman that they can take care of at home.

Shannon Mullen

#66. Men and women play the same game but with different rules.

Habeeb Akande

#67. 'It's not you, it's me.'
'Oh God. That's exactly what my last three boyfriends said when they dumped me. Is it in the Y-Chromosome User's Manual or something?'
He grinned. 'On page five. But, you know, don't tell anyone I told you.'

Kim Fielding

#68. Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set (it) free. I want to free the Arab soul, sense and body with my poetry. The relationships between men and women in our society are not healthy.

Nizar Qabbani

#69. Relationships between men and women are only about sex. The rest of the sh*t is incidental.

Chad Kultgen

#70. Life is surreal. When you step back and really take a look at it, the irony is absolute.

Julieanne O'Connor

#71. Appreciation and respect are mutual needs. We may be wired differently as men and women, but some needs are parallel human needs.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#72. If you find a man who trusts you, who isn't afraid, who sees you for who you are, and if it feels like he knows you for who it is that you simply are, and thinks all of that is beautiful; know that you have found a rare thing.

C. JoyBell C.

#73. Can I have a glass of water?" Her voice was hoarse, probably from screaming. She'd always sounded like that after they'd-

He didn't just force the thought aside. He clubbed it unconscious, threw it into a crawl space and walled it up alive.

Jenny Trout

#74. He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation older than himself. Of course one drank oneself, one fornicated, but one didn't lie with a friend's sister, and 'decent' girls were never squiffy.

Graham Greene

#75. What's universal is the texture of our relationships. It's evolving. Times are changing with the women's movement. Men's roles are being redefined and, in some ways, they're confused.

Terry McMillan

#76. We are different because our brain is wired differently. This causes us to perceive the world in different ways and have different values and priorities. Not better or worse - different.

Allan Pease

#77. To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#78. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.

Camille Paglia

#79. The source of pain in romantic relationships is the lack of awareness about men and women different intrinsic natures.

Linda Alfiori

#80. The Every Single Women to whom I met they are not happy with their men, and the men either not happy with their women!

Sid

#81. Women who say that they have met the most amazing guy in the world are only saying that because they haven't lived with them yet.

Heather Chapple

#82. Maybe you're smiling as I stumble to put my feelings into words. But I'm trying to do her justice, you know?

James Lusarde

#83. It's something that I feel I know about, relationships between men and women. I like to write from the woman's point of view now and again, to get inside her head, to feel what she's feeling.

Raymond Carver

#84. Men and women were doing at their unsurpassed when they were together. It was more or less like the sky and the ground; diverse in nature and was miles apart but they complete each other.

Diyar Harraz

#85. Every kind of relationship needs encouragement from both parties. Be it marriage, dating, friendship, enmity etc.

Nike Thaddeus

#86. I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.

Criss Jami

#87. A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#88. Emerson is a remarkable person, considering that he is a man. Which is not saying a great deal.

Elizabeth Peters

#89. The thought went through my mind that we should film ourselves in our sexual act, and project our frenzied copulation permanently onto the walls of the tea-room, as a lesson to wake up the boring people who drank tea here, and to show them what life was really all about.

Fiona Thrust

#90. She had done the usual trick-been nice. She would never know him. He would never know her. Human relations were all like that, she thought, and the worst were between men and women. Inevitably these were extremely insincere.

Virginia Woolf

#91. It matters little which party has gotten lazy about delivering what their partner craves. It doesn't take too many days or weeks for an unsatisfied partner to start to feel love-starved and sadly unfulfilled. If you want great sex in the bedroom, show love to each other outside the bedroom.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#92. I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to stay and build healthy relationships has had on the black family and black children.

Hill Harper

#93. I think I understand now. You avoid women, and you advise other men to avoid relationships with women. You must be gay." His

Chanta Jefferson Rand

#94. I like relationships on TV between men and women, when they're not just flirtatious and sexual.

Trieste Kelly Dunn

#95. Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship.

Hill Harper

#96. I'm impressed when men go the distance to show they give a damn. That says nothing about the woman and everything about the man.

Donna Lynn Hope

#97. I have to say, her blonde bob was amazing. The delicate way it hugged her face and neck. The softness of it ...

James Lusarde

#98. Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them.

Raheel Farooq

#99. Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#100. From Genesis to Revelation, holy text is all about relationships and the limitless flavors of those relationships. It is the duty of mankind to tap into our women's unique talents
their genius for 'relationships.'
pg vii

Michael Ben Zehabe