Quotes about Gender dynamics

And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends. (...) almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men. (...) [women in fiction were] not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of a woman's life is that

It seems that some women love to be exploited. when they are not exploited, they exploit the man.

Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.

Marriage has worked better for men than for women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.

In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own bread and provide our own clothes. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace!”

What women rightly long for is spiritual and moral initiative from a man, not spiritual and moral domination.

For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion.

Femininity can never bestow masculinity.

Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.

The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly with a cloth.

Men with anger do not know how to deal with unreasonable, pushy people, particularly women.

Emasculation happens in marriage as well. Women are often attracted to the wilder side of a man, but once having caught him they settle down to the task of domesticating him. Ironically, if he gives in he'll resent her for it, and she in turn will wonder where the passion has gone.