Books Quote by John Cheever

“I have only met men like you in novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.”

— Sachin Kundalkar

I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“Literature is the haven of fluidity, of slippage from one character to another, of movement. Women tend to read far more novels than men…

— Anita Phillips

Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters…

— Dean Koontz

“Children and dogs are the messengers of God some of us do not deserve them”

— Ginnetta Correli

Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.

— Harry S. Truman

“I have only men like you n novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.”

— Sachin Kundalkar

“The only ones untouched by the keen madness of the times were the children and the dogs. And the dogs seemed a little nervous.”

— Daniel Abraham

“I dream that someone in space says to me: So let us rush, then, to see the world. It is shaped like an egg,…

— John Cheever

“The night was a magnificent confirmation of "women and children first," yet somehow the loss rate was higher for Third Class children than First…

— Walter Lord

“I’m not arguing here that women and children don’t lie. Men, women, and children lie, but the latter two are not disproportionately prone to…

— Rebecca Solnit

Even the notion that women should have children at all is based on the idea that a woman's inherent and most important role is…

— Jessica Valenti

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.

— Ben Aaronovitch

It's Jamaican women and children who are my inspiration.

— Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

“Those who consider themselves ‘Conservative’ frequently identify with family values, so they should consider carefully the fact that in 1960, only 18% of women…

— Joseph Befumo