"Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful - provided you get between the right man and the right woman." - Woody Allen

"You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy." - Erica Jong

"Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her." - Helen Rowland

"The way to a man's heart is through his stomach." - Fern, Fanny (1811-1872) in 'Willis Parton'

"It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't charge sixteen dollars for that little tiny jar." - Goodsell, Jane

"If there is anything disagreeable going on men are always sure to get out of it." - JANE AUSTEN, Persuasion

"Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don't have to sew buttons." - HEYWOOD BROUN, Seeing Things at Night

"Men are but children of a larger growth;
Our appetites as apt to change as theirs,
And full as craving too, and full as vain."
- JOHN DRYDEN, All for Love

"The male stereotype makes masculinity not just a fact of biology but something that must be proved and re-proved, a continual quest for an ever-receding Holy Grail." - oMARC FEIGEN FASTEAU, The Male Machine

"Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never."
- SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing

"His life was gentle, and the elements
So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world,
This was a man!"
- SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar

"A man who has no office to go to - I don't care who he is - is a trial of which you can have no conception." - GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, The Irrational Knot

"It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son." - GERTRUDE STEIN, Everybody's Autobiography

"It's not the men in my life that counts - it's the life in my men." - MAE WEST, in the film I'm No Angel

"In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on woman." - NANCY ASTOR, My Two Countries

"There is more difference within the sexes than between them." - IVY COMPTON-BURNETT, Mother and Son

"I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made `em to match the men." - GEORGE ELIOT, Adam Bede

"I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out." - GEORGE ELIOT, The Mill on the Floss

"The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another." - FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil

"I can't live either without you or with you." - OVID, Amores

"Woman wants monogamy;
Man delights in novelty.
Love is woman's moon and sun;
Man has other forms of fun. . .
With this the gist and sum of it,
What earthly good can come of it?"
- DOROTHY PARKER, General Review of the Sex Situation

"Men, some to bus'ness, some to pleasure take;
But ev'ry woman is at heart a rake."
- ALEXANDER POPE, Moral Essays

"In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women." - THEODORE REIK, quoted in Esquire

"Now, we are becoming the men we wanted to marry." - GLORIA STEINEM, speech (1981)

"'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel." - WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, Henry Esmond

"In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman." - MARGARET THATCHER, quoted in People

"That . . . man . . . says women can't have as much rights as men, `cause Christ wasn't a woman. . . Where did your Christ come from? . . . From God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him." - SOJOURNER TRUTH, speech (1851)

"LORD ILLINGWORTH: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden.
MRS. ALLONBY: It ends with Revelations."
- OSCAR WILDE, A Woman of No Importance