Marya Mannes Quotes

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

I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy.

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

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.

I find men odd. I don't really understand men. I kind of feel like I understand women better than I do men, really.

Trans women are women, we're just a different type of women.

The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you will never, ever, be able to write women well.

Men are easily dealt with--but when you get the women started, you are in for it, you know.

[I think the most about] women. They are a complete mystery.

The first thing that strikes the careless observer is that women are unlike men. They are 'the opposite sex' - (though why 'opposite' I do not know; what is the 'neighbouring sex'?).

What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.

Being the only female in what was basically a boys’ club must have been difficult for her. Miraculously, she didn’t compensate by becoming hard or quarrelsome. She was still a girl, a slight lovely girl who lay in bed and ate chocolates, a girl whose hair smelled like hyacinth and whose scarves fluttered jauntily in the breeze. But strange and marvelous as she was, a wisp of silk in a forest of black wool, she was not the fragile creature one would have her seem.

To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.

Women give us solace, but if it were not for women we should never need solace.

You know what the problem is? You can't put a woman into a man's role. A women's journey in life, I'm not speaking disrespectfully of women and their roles in life, but a woman's journey in life is very different from a man's. That doesn't mean a woman can't do a man's job, but it doesn't mean that a woman should do a man's job the way a man handles it. The things that men question themselves about in life are quite different from the things women question themselves about.

Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self.

The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness, other realities. So the idea of a man exploring what it's like to be a woman doesn't strike me as being that wild or crazy an idea.

In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.

"After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."

I love all of you men, but you women even more!

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

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.