Neil Strauss Quotes

Too many women are being chosen by men that they don't choose.

Man proposes, woman forecloses.

Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.

Guys aren't threatening. Other girls are the competition. You are usually what they're fighting over.

When women want things to get more serious they can come across like relationship saleswomen but a man wants to think his own mind took him there.

There used to be two kinds of kisses: First when girls were kissed and deserted; second, when they were engaged. Now there's a third kind, where the man is kissed and deserted. If Mr. Jones of the nineties bragged he'd kissed a girl, everyone knew he was through with her. If Mr. Jones of 1919 brags the same, everyone knows it's because he can't kiss her any more. Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

Let's face it: a date is a job-interview, that lasts all night. The only difference between a date and a job interview is: not many job-interviews is there a chance you'll end up naked at the end of it.

Look. I brought you here to give you a choice-" "You didn't bring us here," said Nick. "You're here," said Bod. "I wanted you here. I came here. You followed me. Same thing.

Flirting is the first step in a long process of finding the right man or woman.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Actually being able to exercise your own choice can bring about greater opportunity.

Men always like what the ladies like.

Who would you rather be with: someone with more alternatives or someone with fewer?

A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.

From the minute we're born, boys and girls stare at each other, trying to figure out if they like what they see. Like parade lines, passing each other for mutual inspection. You march, you look. You march, you look. If you're interested, you stop and talk, and if it doesn't work out, you just get back in the parade. You keep marching, and you keep looking.

And this, incidentally, is my thumbnail sketch of American marriage: A woman sees a man; she likes him. Now she jumps on this thing and rides it to some kind of standstill. Then she changes it and trains it, and to the exact degree that she's able to do this, she disrespects him.

Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed.

You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand." "If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.

There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.

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

Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.

All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.

That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is out chance to chose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it.

Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes.