Quote by Eleanor Catton

“For I had observed that men did not usually do things unless they liked doing them.”

— Barbara Pym

“But he knew how to treat a woman with respect, to never demean or condescend or embarrass her in front of others.”

— Miranda Liasson

“It did not seem possible, much as he craved the comfort of a woman of intelligence, of humor and balance and perception.”

— Julie Powell

“Again the surprised expression crossed his face. He had not imagined that a woman would dare to speak so to a man. For me,…

— Charlotte Brontë

“He was proud and stubborn, and all the ton looked up to him. Men curried his favor, women flirted like mad. And all the…

— Julia Quinn

“He was of that generation of men who simply accepted the mystery of womanhood, who made no effort to try to understand their wives,…

— Andrew Porter

“But it seemed to him that there should be a difference in his attitude. All the distress that he had ever known, the sorrow…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Yet another man commented that women seem to wallow in their problems, wanting to talk about them forever, whereas he and other men want…

— Deborah Tannen

“He never had been good at arguing with women; they tapped into pools of resentment over slights that had steeped for years.”

— Martin Cruz Smith

“No wonder so many women had succumbed to this man, had thrown away their reputations and their honor for him…had even, if rumor could…

— Lisa Kleypas

“He’d been respectable and respectful, always treating women”

— Melody Anne

“In fact, after some thought, he couldn’t think of a word that meant female that men hadn’t imbued with some belittling shade of meaning.”

— Scott Meyer