Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.

I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne.

Men and women are like two feet; they can help each other get ahead.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other's strengths.

I think it's pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It's love or hate.

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

I have really good female friends. I've never bought the whole men-and-women-can't-be-friends thing. I think that's sort of nonsense.

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

You look at someone like Beyonce singing 'Single Ladies,' when we all know she's married. Some of it is just for entertainment.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

Poverty brings one blessing in Turkey - the poor man is of necessity a monogamist.

I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Religious and civil marriage to be replaced by free marriage. Adult men and women have the right to unite and separate as they please....With the abolition of the right of inheritance and the education of children assured by society, all the legal reasons for the irrevocability of marriage will disappear....In marriage, man and woman must enjoy absolute liberty.

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

Women cannot complain about men until they start gettting better taste in them.

By divine design, men and women are intended to progress together toward perfection and a fulness of glory. Because of their distinctive temperaments and capacities, males and females each bring to a marriage relationship unique perspectives and experiences.

Sex was invented by God.

I don't idealise women. I enjoy them. I have been married to two of the most independent women it is possible to think of.

I believe that all men and women are created equal, but it took our country until 1920 to acknowledge this for women. And then it took until 1964, the year before I was born, to outlaw discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. And same-sex marriage became the law of the land in 2015.

I wanted to show platonic friendship between men and women, because I think it is underutilised in fiction.

They [men and women] have both been, and men especially, have been told that how they naturally are is bad.

As the husband is, the wife is.

We 've lost something else: the relationship between men and women.