Men and Women

The basic discovery about any people
is the discovery of the relationship between its men and women.
-Pearl Buck

I want to know what the difference
between the essence of a man and woman is.
-Tina Turner

I do find myself more and more struck
by the differences between the sexes.
To put it another way:
All marriages are mixed marriages.
-Anne Tyler

So different, this man
And this woman:
A stream flowing
In a field.
-William Carlos Williams

Men are motivated and inspired when they feel needed.
Women are motivated and inspired when they feel cherished.
-John Gray

Sometimes I think the biggest difference between men and women
is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence
and hurl themselves upon it.
Women know where it lives but they can leave it alone.
-Russell Hoban

Men are from the earth, women are from the earth.
Deal with it.
-George Carlin

The male sense of space must differ from that of the female,
who has such interesting, active and significant inner space.
The space that interests men is outer.
The fly ball high against the sky,
the long pass spiraling overhead,
the jet fighter like the scarcely visible pinpoint nozzle
laying down its vapor trail at 40,000 feet,
the gazelle haunch flickering just beyond arrow-reach,
the uncountable stars sprinkled on their great black wheel,
the horizon, the mountaintop, the quasar -
these brings portents with them
and awaken a sense of relation with the invisible, the empty.
The ideal male body is taut with lines of potential force,
a diagram extending outward;
the ideal female body curves around centers of repose.
-John Updike

Man is love in intelligence;
woman is intelligence in love.
-Eliphas Levi

Women prefer to talk in two's,
while men prefer to talk in 3's.
-G. K. Chesterton

The woman's vision is deep reaching,
the man's far reaching.
-Betty Grable

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
-George Chapman

Men teach women how to organize their consciousness,
especially in the everyday world.
Women teach men about the Sacred Dream,
how to receive and implement the wisdom of their consciousness.
Women teach men how to live.
Men teach women how to express their dreams
and bring an exchange of energy back from the world.
-Lynn Andrews

Always remember that when a man goes out of a room,
he leaves everything in it behind...
When a woman goes out she carries everything
that happened in the room along with her.
-Alice Munro

When men and women agree,
it is only in their conclusions;
their reasons are always different.
-George Santayana

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple:
one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
-Virginia Woolf

To avoid being fascinated by men and women
we must never give our whole heart to changeable and perishable individualities.
Let us love the immortal virtues and eternal flower of beauty
which we see in transient creatures.
-Eliphas Levi