John Fowles Quotes

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects? It is an extra dimension of feeling which we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real women?and absurd.

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

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

As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.

men are not realists - only women are.

Directing is genderless. The only thing... I love men. I'm not being mean to them, but they can't hear you. I don't have a husband, and so I'm not really attuned to it, but I didn't know that they could not really hear you. Like, I'm talking, and they just walk away.

Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.

Are men and women different creatures? Do we feel things differently? Being a man, I can't know what a woman feels.

Balls are to men what purses are to women.

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

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.

Women are more difficult to handle than men. It's their minds.

I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.

In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

I understand men much better than most women I know.

In a way, a man's body is more beautiful than a woman's.

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.

I find that men are far more vain than women.

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

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

My brother used to say that when you deal with women, it's difficult to remove emotions from an argument. I never really knew what he meant. Then I read an article that said when it comes to emotion and logic, men's and women's brains are different - my brother was right! Women are very mysterious, but that's part of their joy.

I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.