mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of…

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing,…

— Jess Walter

“And naturally, you're going to believe your mother over a man you think is pure evil down to his bones, but it doesn't change…

— Jack Geurts

The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.

— E. V. Lucas

“A man without a mother is a man without a country, an exile”

— Jerry Weintraub

A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion.

— H. L. Mencken

Never marry a man who doesn't love his mother… neither should a man marry any woman who hasn't been a good daughter to her…

— Mercy Pheona

I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as…

— Walt Whitman

He’s just another man who wants to teach me something.

— Sheila Heti

A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough.

— E. W. Scripps

“A woman will be inclined to repeat a request that doesn't get a response because she is convinced that her husband would do what…

— Deborah Tannen

You're the kind of man a man wants when a man wants a man.

— David Wong

“That's right." He threaded both hands through her hair to hold her in place. "You like it like this. Dirty and rough, getting fucked…

— Kit Rocha

If a man wants to objectify a woman, he will do it even if she's clad from head to toe.

— Urvashi Rautela

“...[I]t behooves a man who wants to see wonders sometimes to go out of his way.”

— John Mandeville

A man wants a woman to be his first love. A woman wants a man to be her last.

— Anonymous