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Quotes about men and women
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism. (Sand George)
Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself. (Sand George)
Men should be saying I want to become a woman. The world would be a far better place if more men wanted to become women, than women wanted to become men. (Sand George)
Women make love for love, men make love for lust. (Sand George)
To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman. (Sand George)
The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege. (Sand George)
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. (Sand George)
Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run. (Sand George)
Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone. (Sand George)
Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves. (Sand George)
Men and women, women and men; it will never work. (Sand George)
Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed. (Sand George)
Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums. (Sand George)
Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions. The woman who rejects the stereotype of feminine weakness and dependence can no longer find much comfort in the clich that all men are beasts. She has no choice except to believe, on the contrary, that men are human beings, and she finds it hard to forgive them when they act like animals. (Sand George)
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. (Sand George)
The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action. (Sand George)
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. (Sand George)
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams. (Sand George)
I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever. (Sand George)
When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family. (Sand George)
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. (Sand George)
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. (Sand George)
Whether women are better than men I cannot say, but I can say they are certainly no worse. (Sand George)
Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on. (Sand George)
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, they die earlier. (Sand George)
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