There are some women that don't do it for some men. That's why they turn out so many models. — John Updike Copy Share Image
It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women. — John Updike Copy Share Image
The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter. — John Updike Copy Share Image
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Man makes one journey all his living days, Down through the realms of music and of art; Down through the halls of… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The thing about her is, she’s good-natured. He knew it the second he saw her standing by the parking meters. He could… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes absorbed in images that tug… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Her hair had been going gray as long as he could remember; she bundled it behind in a bun held with hairpins that he… — John Updike Copy Share Image
