“ I mean, I'm married first of all to one of, if not the most wonderful women in the world. She is everything - funny, attractive, hard-working, she has integrity, she loves me to bits. Seal
“ I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer. K. D. Lang
“ I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage. Jeff Bridges
“ African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence. Wangari Maathai
“ As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap… Dee Dee Myers
“ Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also exp… Andrew Cohen
“ The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale. Johanna Siguroardottir
“ Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams. Rudolph Valentino
“ It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction. Mary Gordon
“ We (men) would rather lose an arm out a city bus window than tell you simply, You’re not theone. We are quite sure you will kill us or yourself or both—or even worse, cry and yell at us. Greg Behrendt Liz Tuccillo
“ They are boiling with the pressured energy of explosive forces confined in a small space, and with the fervor of all religious movements in their early, purist stages. It is not enough to give lip ser… Margaret Atwood
“ Then, what's the matter?' I wonder, in fact, how many times I have said that or something equal to it to a woman passing palely through my life. Love is what this means, of course. Or at least, seco… Richard Ford
“ The best I can say, it's like this. A man's in his skin, see, like a nut in its shell ... It's hard and strong, that shell, and it's all full of him. Full of grand man-meat, man-self. And that's all.… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ My father always says, choosing a wife is like putting your hand into a bag full of writhing creatures, with one eel to six snakes. What are the chances you will pull out the eel? Hilary Mantel
“ It was getting late in the year, the sky had been low and overcast for days, and I was drinking tea in a glassy room with a woman without children, a gate through which no one had entered the world. S… Billy Collins
“ I don't see why you're not just going for this.' Dovey looked her in the eyes, in the mirror. 'You a rocket. You go for thing, Dellarobia. That is you. When did you ever not?' Barbara Kingsolver
“ Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You will be his wife; that is to be his servant, his possession. He will be your master. You had better… Philippa Gregory
