Quotes About Complexity

Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?

But men don't come in just two groups, one of gold and the other of lead. They are a mix of both." "And what about women?" "Pure gold, my girl," Rayvan answered with a chuckle.

Female sexuality is presented in our culture as a male fantasy, which doesn't include the reality of the abuse, the pleasure, the pain, the power, the complexity of women's sexuality.

I wish I could be attracted to unattractive women. They're just more interesting.

Men have to recognize that women are not all the same when it comes to what can get them aroused.

Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention.

Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!

People want to put women in one box, and Im interested in how women can be everything at once.

unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women.

What is a woman? A woman is chaos. Chaos is the naturally perfect state of all things.

How strange women are.

I'm interested in playing lots of different complex women.

Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

All my life I'd gone for women who were a little off.

It is a lot harder to put something back together than to keep it running.

I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them.

I've fancied other women, but I haven't done anything about it.

Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft spoken and loud, all at once.

I like to play smart, three-dimensional women. I also like to play roles where the women are a little crazy. I just have a feel for crazy people.

Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women

I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.

Look, I grew up in, went to school in, and now live in the American South, and southern white women are interesting, complex and quirky, even the ones with racial anxieties.