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“Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow themselves to love for fear that the loved one will abandon them. If the first woman they passionately loved, the mother, was not true to her bond of love, then how can they trust that their partner will be true to love. Often in their adult relationships these men act out again and again to test their partner's love. While the rejected adolescent boy imagines that he can no longer receive his mother's love because he is not worthy, as a grown man he may act out in ways that are unworthy and yet demand of the woman in his life that she offer him unconditional love. This testing does not heal the wound of the past, it merely reenacts it, for ultimately the woman will become weary of being tested and end the relationship, thus reenacting the abandonment. This drama confirms for many men that they cannot put their trust in love. They decide that it is better to put their faith in being powerful, in being dominant.”
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![Virginia Woolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1419596619i/6765._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
![C. JoyBell C.](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1612358741i/4114218._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“You only need one man to love you. But him to love you free like a wildfire, crazy like the moon, always like tomorrow, sudden like an inhale and overcoming like the tides. Only one man and all of this.”
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![William Shakespeare](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1654446514i/947._UY200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more.
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea, and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hey nonny, nonny.
Sing no more ditties, sing no more
Of dumps so dull and heavy.
The fraud of men was ever so
Since summer first was leafy.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hey, nonny, nonny.”
― Much Ado About Nothing
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea, and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hey nonny, nonny.
Sing no more ditties, sing no more
Of dumps so dull and heavy.
The fraud of men was ever so
Since summer first was leafy.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hey, nonny, nonny.”
― Much Ado About Nothing
![Katharine Hepburn](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1332828172i/84099._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”
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![When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others, he](https://images.gr-assets.com/quotes/1377781535p2/455658.jpg)
“When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.”
― Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
― Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
![Khaled Hosseini](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1359753468i/569._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
![Virginia Woolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1419596619i/6765._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
![Mae West](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198551937i/259666._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.”
― The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West
― The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West
![Dorothy L. Sayers](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1519840173i/8734._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”
― Gaudy Night
― Gaudy Night
![Virginia Woolf](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1419596619i/6765._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
![Mary Wollstonecraft](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1228515449i/1853305._UX200_CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.”
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
![Jane Austen](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651510251i/1265._UX200_CR0,4,200,200_.jpg)
“I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."
"Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”
― Persuasion
"Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”
― Persuasion
![Amy Sedaris](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1208893678i/2848._UY200_CR3,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
― I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
![Mahatma Gandhi](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1356810912i/5810891._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?"
[To the Women of India (Young India, Oct. 4, 1930)]”
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[To the Women of India (Young India, Oct. 4, 1930)]”
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![Conan O'Brien](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1207596891i/140050._UX200_CR0,45,200,200_.jpg)
“A study in the Washington Post says that women have
better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the
authors of that study: 'Duh.”
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better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the
authors of that study: 'Duh.”
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![Friedrich Nietzsche](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651474065i/1938._UX200_CR0,35,200,200_.jpg)
“Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.”
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![Alice Walker](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1406752585i/7380._UY200_CR77,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”
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![W. Somerset Maugham](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1414096390i/4176632._UX200_CR0,26,200,200_.jpg)
“As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.”
― The Moon and Sixpence
― The Moon and Sixpence
![Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1628721308i/19992417._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?” Aunty Ifeka said. “Your life belongs to you and you alone.”
― Half of a Yellow Sun
― Half of a Yellow Sun
![Plato](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651532170i/879._UX200_CR0,51,200,200_.jpg)
“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
― The Republic
― The Republic
![William Golding](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1636107810i/306._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior [to men] and always have been.”
― Lord of the Flies
― Lord of the Flies
![Georgette Heyer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1336748892i/18067.jpg)
“You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!”
― Powder and Patch
― Powder and Patch
![Horace Annesley Vachell](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1279037847i/1031419.jpg)
“I have been crying," she replied, simply, "and it has done me good. It helps a woman you know, just as swearing helps a man.”
― The Romance of Judge Ketchum
― The Romance of Judge Ketchum
![Deb Caletti](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1533683771i/135786._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many of the so-called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and think how many of them would cause serious and drastic unhappiness after The End? Why are sick and dangerous personality types so often shown a passionate and tragic and something to be longed for when those are the very ones you should run for your life from? Think about it. Heathcliff. Romeo. Don Juan. Jay Gatsby. Rochester. Mr. Darcy. From the rigid control freak in The Sound of Music to all the bad boys some woman goes running to the airport to catch in the last minute of every romantic comedy. She should let him leave. Your time is so valuable, and look at these guys--depressive and moody and violent and immature and self-centered. And what about the big daddy of them all, Prince Charming? What was his secret life? We dont know anything about him, other then he looks good and comes to the rescue.”
― The Secret Life of Prince Charming
― The Secret Life of Prince Charming
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