Alice Walker Quotes

I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

I've got six brothers, so I grew up with all boys, then I moved in with three girls, and the differences were incredible. Living in a very feminine house threw me a bit. The bathroom was unbelievable; it was like a chemist's.

It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.

I feel like it's the most unnatural thing for two humans, especially of the opposite sex, to live in harmony under one roof. You realize how different men and women are.

It's axiomatic that all husbands are impossible. But I also think it's axiomatic that women are slightly impossible.

When you have two people, separate beings, trying to share one life together. That's always going to have difficulties.

If marriage isn't something for me, but I like living with someone or being committed, I can choose this other path as long as she's okay with it but I would hardly say that that should be what other people do. Some people want that, that written paper, that commitment and that means something to them. And I don't in the least look down on it.

Fletch then kisses me on the forehead before opening the cabinet under the coffeemaker to grab placemats and napkins. Retrieving these items is his job because I kind of don't like to bend. I also refuse to carry anything heavier than my purse.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

I've always thought men and women are not too well suited to each other. It's inevitable that they should come together, but, again, how well suited are they to live together in the same house?

You have to have an open mind about what you're getting into when you cast your lot with another human being - whether you're signing a lease together, buying a house together, walking down the aisle together, or having kids together.

There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.

Living together is an art. It's a patient art, it's a beautiful art, it's fascinating.

Loving isn't liking and it takes liking to live together.

The desire for freedom and independence becomes more of an issue for many men in relationships, whereas interdependence and connection become more of an issue for many women.

...gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.

Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage.

I don't think 50-50 relationships exist. Men have an incredibly variety of options. It's much harder for a woman to do both things. I think traditional relationships work best.

More women are becoming the men they wanted to marry, but too few men are becoming the women they wanted to marry. That leaves most women with two jobs, one outside the home and one in it.

Men feel more bereft without a woman than women will feel bereft without a man

In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house.