Theodore Dreiser Quotes

I was very interested in the relationship between the man who speaks and the woman who listens. I was drawn to the idea that the relationship between a man and a woman can be something like a war itself, very cruel and violent.

In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain.

I am baffled by men. When they want me, I don't want them; when I want them, they don't want me.

I'd fight anybody. People are turning me down and I know that for a fact.

I think I've learned quite a bit about the battle of the sexes or, at least, how to keep the status quo a little bit more.

In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.

I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master.

Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is dependent on man through her desires and also through her needs; he could do without her better than she can do without him. She cannot fulfill her purpose in life without his aid, without his goodwill, without his respect.....Nature herself has decreed that woman, both for herself and her children, should be at the mercy of man s judgment.

We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fact." "And like everyone who's had enough," said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, "he wants more.

That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love. ~Page 133.

You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'

Hard to argue with a woman, period. Only time a man wins with one of them is when the woman is either on TV or dead. (Jack)

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.

You asked me to go out with you. I know you probably changed your mind. But you should know, the answer was yes. It's always been yes when it comes to you.

Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.

Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want it — they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices "No, not yet," and the sky said "No, not there.

I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses and scratched the paint on new cars and beat up well-tended children. It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.

Having women work with men is like having a grizzly bear work with salmon . . . dipped in honey.

I think with any sort of rejection, you're angry that you weren't enough for that person. So I don't know if I'm angry at myself for not being enough, or if I'm angry at him for not considering me to be enough.

We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.'

I feel like the feminine has been a little undervalued. We all have to get our own jobs and make our own money, but staying at home, nurturing, being the mother, cooking — it's a valuable thing my mom created. And sometimes, you need your knight in shining armor. I'm sorry. You need a man to be a man and a woman to be a woman. That's why relationships work.

Am I jealous? he thought, astonished. Jealous of the chance object to which she has attached herself? Jealous of something that does not concern me? One can be jealous of a love that has turned away, but not of that to which it has turned.

The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo

Can't you just like a girl who likes you back?' 'None of them likes me back. I may as well like the one I really want.