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Quotes About Relationships

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.
~ Terence
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.
~ Unknown
Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
~ Bill Cosby
Men get laid, but women get screwed.
~ Quentin Crisp
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
~ Katharine Hepburn
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible.
~ Margaret Mead
Prince, a precept I'd leave for you, Coined in Eden, existing yet: Skirt the parlor, and shun the zoo, Women and elephants never forget.
~ Dorothy Parker
Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
~ John Calvin
Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.
~ Evelyn Cunningham
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
~ Lord Chesterfield
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
~ Adrienne Rich
What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.
~ Bill Maher
Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane.
~ Ann Oakley
Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.
~ Marilyn French
The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started?
~ Billy Connolly
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.
~ Tori Amos
Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.
~ Mae West
There were times when he could not read the face he had studied so long, and when this lonely girl was a greater mystery to him than any women of the world...
~ Charles Dickens
Men have been trained and conditioned by women, not unlike the way Pavlov conditioned his dogs, into becoming their slaves. As compensation for their labours men are given periodic use of a woman's vagina.
~ Esther Vilar
Women give nothing to friendship except what they borrow from love.
~ Seneca
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
~ Virginia Woolf
There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.
~ Ann Oakley