Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

Guys don't like women telling them what to do. It reminds them of their mothers, or something like that.

All women like to look up to their men.

I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.

I don't really relate to certain blokey men who just want to talk about blokey things. I never really know what to say and I always feel I have to act blokey in order to have them not say, 'You're a weirdo.'

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.

Men that aren't threatened by opinionated, faintly aggressive women are in a minority.

A relationship book I once read told women to use the word 'fun' whenever possible. The author claimed it had a subliminal aphrodisiac effect on men, who want a relaxed girl attached only to good times - the human equivalent of Diet Coke. This is not me.

But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea.

I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what's on the stove.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Boys are so much drama.

The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

When you're a man you try and be macho.

Girls have a tendency to take responsibility for romantic misinterpretations, when often it's men whose perfectly honed emotional inscrutability makes life more complicated than it should be.

Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.

I do like to belong to a man.

Once I married Fernando, I became invisible.

You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say that.

Day and night woman must be kept in dependence by the males of their families, and, if they attach themselves to sensual enjoyments, they must be kept under one's control. Her father protects her in childhood, her husband protects her in youth, and her sons protect her in old age; a woman is never fit for independence.

Women are angry if other women think too little of their lovers, and furious if they think too much.

I find the whole feminist thing very boring. They are so much on the defensive that they dare not love a man because they feel assaulted by being dependent.

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

Have you noticed that they write parts for mute women but not for mute men? It must be a masculine dream: a woman who can feel and hear but not talk!