Anais Nin Quotes

I've always got on with lads, more than I have with girls.

I've always gotten along with guys better.

Men are easier to get on with than women. They tend not to make emotional demands on you.

I love female company. I love men, but women are different.

The gentle and insinuating manners of the female sex tend to soften the roughness of the other sex.

When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I just felt more comfortable with cats. And I felt more comfortable with girls, I didn't really like hanging out with guys. When I was about ten or eleven, I was friendlier with the girls in my school than with the guys.

I've never had any close male friends. The most important relationships in my life have always been with women.

There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.

Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.

There is a fundamental difference between men and women - women need romance, men need intrigue.

I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.

I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

Men are awesome, but they're pretty easy to figure out; women are way more complicated, and way more interesting.

I don't know if women gravitate toward me, or I gravitate toward them.

I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

In my experience as a director, I think there is obviously something of the way men - maybe that's a common point with Shirin - the way men see women in the film, and the way these two characters see each other.

A woman will forget that a man is male, if they are good enough friends, but men rarely forget that a woman is feminine.

Women tend to love men in their presence, while men tend to love women in their absence.

Friendship can exist between persons of different sexes, without any coarse or sensual feelings; yet a woman always looks upon a man as a man, and so a man will look upon a woman as a woman.

...people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

All men have parties and are pals who never let each other down. A pal can say terrible things which are forgotten the next day. A pal never forgives, he just forgets, and a woman forgives but never forgets. That's how it is. That's why women aren't allowed to have parties. Being forgiven is very unpleasant.

As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.

Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.