“When women go wrong, men go right after them.”
“I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?”
“Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!”
“There is very little difference between men and women in space.”
“I must have women -- there is nothing unbends the mind like them.”
“Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.”
“There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.”
“The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.”
“But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.”
“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
“It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son -- and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.”
“The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.”
“Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it -- but there is.”
“Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
“It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked.”
“I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.”
“Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.”
“It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.”
“The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.”
“Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation.”
“Either sex alone is half itself.”
“Woman submits to her fate; man makes his.”
“Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.”
“Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.”
“Were there no women, men might live like gods.”
“If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent.”
“The three sexes are men, women, and professors.”
“If women were humbler, men would be more honest.”
“Women make love for love, men make love for lust.”
“Men and women, women and men; it will never work.”