Richelle Mead Quotes

One of the things that struck me about the 1870s, which we still haven't nearly addressed, is what to do about the male-female divide. One of the forbidden topics is when men own up to the omnivorousness of their sexual interest and how to square that with being in love with an individual woman.

The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.

I think a primal role of a man in a relationship is to protect his woman.

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

It takes me so long to get tired of a man. It's women that are the problem. Don't get me wrong. I think men have their problems just as much as women.

I'm a bit of a tomboy, but when it comes to love I am a doormat.

To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.

Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.

There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.

If men want sex they'll find it.

You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex.

I just don't get boys; I don't really get men.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Many men admire strong women, but they don't love them.

Relationships between men and women have become much more complicated.

A guy should always pursue the girl.

I want the kind of feminism that allows me to have a voice and to compete on equal terms with men yet still, potentially, to have one of them hurl me over their shoulder and carry me off somewhere, because I still find proper, old-fashioned masculinity deeply attractive.

A woman can't teach a man how to be a man. But she can teach you how to nurture, how to care, how to love, and how to give.

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.

Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.