Quote by Clive Barker

“Women are the reason of the existence of men.”

— Nkosiyazi Shange

“Were we women always destined to appear as we were not, as long as we were standing next to our husbands?”

— Melanie Benjamin

“Women without men, I realized then, are totally different creatures.”

— Shashi Deshpande

“Women were a whole other species when it came to understanding them.”

— Millicent Ashby

“There were men, and then there was this man. He was the kind of man that made the rest of the male population seem…

— Janet Elizabeth Henderson

“...although the reason for the existence of women is obvious enough, nobody has any real idea what point there is in being a man.…

— Steve Jones

“We started out making men in about the state of mind which I suppose created them in the first place -- we had run…

— Shirley Jackson

“Besides, women were better suited to bear sorrow than men. They lived on their emotions. They only thought of their emotions. When they took…

— Oscar Wilde

“and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not…

— Washington Irving

“I wonder, what kind of life would I have had if it hadn’t been for my mother’s tea-and-cookie parties? Perhaps it’s because of them…

— Stephen Vizinczey

“...they all were, in the grip of a huge fantasy: the idea that men would not be judged by who they once were and…

— Salman Rushdie

“She was convinced that women were as often victims of themselves as they were of men.”

— John Irving