No one will ever win the battle of the sexes. There’s just too much fraternizing with the enemy.              

—Henry Kissinger

A woman who can’t forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. 

—Edgar Watson Howe

When I eventually met Mr Right, I had no idea that his first name was Always.           

—Rita Rudner

I married beneath me. All women do.                                                 

—Lady Nancy Astor

All sensible men are of the same opinion about women, and no sensible man ever says what that opinion is.      

—Samuel Butler

Women like silent men. They think they’re listening.

                                                                                                                                              —Marcel Achard

Guys are simple…women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.

—Dave Barry

Man is defined as a human being and woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

                                                                             —Simone de Beauvoir

I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.            

—Marilyn Monroe

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

—Charlotte Whitten

Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren. Manhood at the most basic level can be validated and expressed only in action.              

—George Gilder

Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.

 —Virginia Woolf

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