“A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.”
Anita Brookner
“A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one”
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”
Oscar Wilde
“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
“Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.”
“After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.”
Helen Rowland
“Time and tide wait for no man, but always stand still for a woman of thirty”
Robert Frost