Young men Quote by Anthony Powell

“Too clever and competent. That is why she has no patience with men.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“It is not just that it is more difficult for women to succeed; they get treated much more harshly if ever they mess up.”

— Mary Beard

“The girl was in fact so patient with the old lady that she had not yet noticed that she was never given an opportunity…

— Charles Williams

“The wise do not argue therefrom, that the desires of the woman, as long as she is young and strong, are not as real…

— Anonymous

“Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.”

— Françoise Sagan

“She preferred her men less intense and less—well, just less. What she was looking for was control. This man wasn’t tame enough for her…

— Destiny Booze

“In his experience with women, it was difficult to recover once things began to go wrong--once they had unreasonably decided that you were a…

— John Lanchester

“Women hoped harder than men, he thought, sometimes hard enough to change the outcome of things.”

— Jo-Ann Mapson

“He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“I seemed to perceive that my problem - that what I had to do to prepare myself for getting into contact with her, was…

— Ford Madox Ford

“How easy it was, she thought unhappily as she did it, for men and women. They could stand in a street and argue, flirt…

— Sarah Waters

“Any man for her had better be well-dressed, well-groomed, and well-hung, and if he couldn’t get her off at least twice with his mouth,…

— Lauren Gallagher