Jay R. Ferguson Quotes

I would love to have seen a male-female relationship that had nothing to do with falling in love, I'd love to prove, even on TV - even if it's not true! - that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement.

Men and women's needs and desires overlap but go in different directions as well.

There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.

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

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

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.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

Men who like women rarely fall in love.

The problem is that, partly because we are women, a large measure of our happiness depends on our relationships - including, unavoidably, our relationships with men.

I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.

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.

I have really good female friends. I've never bought the whole men-and-women-can't-be-friends thing. I think that's sort of nonsense.

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

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.

I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Most of my friends are male. Men are more fun.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

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

I've never seen a world where only men were responsible for the violence, and the women were innocent. They go together. Men and women are a violent mixture.

Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

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.