Quotes about Relationships

Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain as his mother.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.

When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost.

A woman's life is a history of the affections.

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

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.

There must be several young women who would render the Christian life intensely difficult to him if only you could persuade him to marry one of them.

Women give nothing to friendship except what they borrow from love.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.