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“Why do all these Russian men have to be so devastatingly, frustratingly handsome?”

— Sherry D. Ficklin

“Experience often repeated, truly bitter experience, had taught him long ago that with decent people, especially Moscow people -- always slow to move and…

— Anton Chekhov

“I'm not stupid, romantic, or a busy Russian novelist.”

— Rabih Alameddine

“It is all about a girl who is more interested in politics than in love... the Russian censors will not let it be published…

— Alice Munro

“Male writers who never find the stabilizing force of an understanding woman in their lives usually end up as the jaded figures of their…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“And it has always been a mystery, and I've marveled a thousand times at this ability of man (and, it seems, of the Russian…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“And why is it all men think everything a woman writes is trivial or trashy-or just plain silly drivel? Don't men have romantic notions?…

— V.C. Andrews

“He was a mostly mild man with a weakness for passion, a suburban father burdened with the heart of a Russian hero without any…

— Suzanne Berne

“But I held her in my heart, and would stay with her all my days, even if a great many of them were trying…

— Adam Johnson

“All a woman ever needs know about men is that they are creatures of their codpieces. Appeal to their chausses and you will have…

— Kinley MacGregor

“Man is always trying to create a woman who will fill his needs, and that makes her untrue to herself.”

— Anaïs Nin

Russian men have a saying: "Women are like buses..." That's it.

— Yakov Smirnoff