Driven Quote by Todd Haynes

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

A man who will risk nothing for love is not a man

— Patricia Briggs

He who is himself crossed in love is able from time to time to master his passion, for he is not the creature but…

— Stefan Zweig

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

... it is always the men we won't allow to make love to us, who take our characters away.

— Ellen Buckingham Mathews

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the…

— Ken Follett

Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I really do love male characters, in some ways, for the fact that they get surprised when they're vulnerable. Women are more surprised by…

— Courtney A. Kemp

One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love is a…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks…

— Karin Slaughter

The traditional gender ideals of the strong-silent man who plays his cards close to his chest and the mysterious woman who disguises her feelings…

— Sam Keen

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

— George Eliot