Bronze medal Quote by Andrew Sean Greer

“A shrew, a wife, a whore. Those seemed to be my choices. I ask any man reading this, how could you decide whether to…

— Andrew Sean Greer

“I wanted to be the man she needed, one she could look up to, and who would always love and care for her. I…

— Melanie Moreland

“Men wanted me. They all did, however briefly, but none of them wanted to keep me. That's what I needed. I needed to be…

— Fisher Amelie

“I wanted to be respected and to be loved. I longed for a man, like my father, to come and take me away from…

— Nicci Greene

“She always thought she needed someone to love when all she really needed to do was love the world and let love find her…

— Kate McGahan

“And when he was, when he finally found love after a life without, he died, happy. And the woman, all she ever wanted was…

— A.G. Riddle

“I say this simply as a woman rattling the cage to be free. And what do I mean by free? Just to walk down…

— Andrew Sean Greer

“You know what I want? I just want you to be open to the fact that I am a woman. I’ve got emotions. I’ve…

— S.B. Redd

“I wanted to be a woman, but that seemed to me to be a world to which I was to be eternally refused entrance.…

— Maya Angelou

“But she had never known that a man could want a woman and not take her because he did care. There was something very…

— Mary Jo Putney

“Women were glad when he came into their lives. It was not boasting. Women smiled for him; even when he left them, they smiled…

— Robert Jordan

“she is all things men want to love, but could never handle.”

— Christopher Poindexter