#sexes

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. ↗

— John Fowles

#distinction #great #men #objects #relationships

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#entire #hidden #marriage #reconciles #sexes

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#enemy #ever #much #sexes #too

In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance. ↗

— John Strachan

#churches #diocese #few #great #growing

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#both #distinct #drawbacks #females #idea

Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#cruelty #love #loved #sexes #unrequited

The way Mom saw it, women should let menfolk do the work because it made them feel more manly. That notion only made sense if you had a strong man willing to step up and get things done, and between Dad's gimp, Buster's elaborate excuses, and Apache's tendency to disappear, it was often up to me to keep the place from falling apart. But even when everyone was pitching in, we never got out from under all the work. I loved that ranch, though sometimes it did seem that instead of us owning the place, the place owned us. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#common-sense #daughter #farming #mother #ranch

Personally, I don't deal much in theory. I have to deal with the facts. And on the basis of facts, I don't see much difference in the behavior of men and women. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#men

Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it. We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother. For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man's toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#sexes #change

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#class #division #dynamic #instead #into