Pearl S. Buck Quotes

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

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.

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

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.

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

Something that always fascinated me was the psychology and the psychology differences between men and women and how we relate to one another.

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

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

This is the problem today. Men and women have switched places. The woman now acts more like the man.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.

It's something that I feel I know about, relationships between men and women. I like to write from the woman's point of view now and again, to get inside her head, to feel what she's feeling.

Call it nature or nurture, there are differences in how men and women approach professional conduct, and facing these issues head-on will make us all more equipped to succeed.

A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.'

Women blame men for their own singlehood.