Gender-relations Quote by Sigrid Nunez

“Besides, women were better suited to bear sorrow than men.”

— Oscar Wilde

“What if, for once in history, a woman's story could be untethered from what we need it to be in order to feel better…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“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

“It figured that the one man that treated her like a woman was the one that made her wish she was a man so…

— R.L. Mathewson

“Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her better for it.”

— Jane Austen

“A happily ever after belongs to every woman, no matter how complicated their past or present may be. No matter how many tears they’ve…

— Frankie Love

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

— John Irving

“I knew then, in that small moment, that all my life I would be the kind of woman that inspired weakness in men. It…

— Nanci Kincaid

“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

“Unlike women, men weren’t emotional creatures who easily revealed their every intimate thought and sentiment like women did.”

— E.N. Joy

“There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman's well-being.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

— Françoise Sagan