Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

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

A man likes to feel that he is loved, a woman likes to be told.

What women need to understand is that men don't communicate. It's not intentional or on purpose. We're just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

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

Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that's not the way men work.

There's a fundamental difference between how often men remember to say 'I love you' and how often women want to hear 'I love you.' For the most part, it's on the guy. He's not withholding it intentionally. It's just that we kind of miss the point sometimes, that even in the most nonchalant way, telling the person how you feel is important.

Love's not only blind but deaf.

Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but in her lord; Count to ten, and man is bored. With this the gist and sum of it, What earthly good can come of it?

Men fall in love faster than, and just as often as, women.

Women bond differently, and I don't think men understand that.

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.

I think for men and women, there's a different dynamic when it comes to love. Because I feel like a man who falls in love with a woman falls harder than a woman falling for a man. We're not emotionally as accepting as women are.

Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.

Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea.

My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want; a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne

Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them; men are cured of their love by the same intimacies.

The desire for freedom and independence becomes more of an issue for many men in relationships, whereas interdependence and connection become more of an issue for many women.

Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.

The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.