“The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he's a baby.”

“The narcissistic, the domineering, the possessive woman can succeed in being a "loving” mother as long as the child is small. Only the really loving woman, the woman who is happier in giving than in taking, who is firmly rooted in her own existence, can be a loving mother when the child is in the process of separation.”

Erich Fromm book The Art of Loving

“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)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

“The only problem with one-man woman was that he was not a one-woman man.”

Rachel Gibson (1961) American writer

“Increasingly in our time — this is an inevitable result of collectivization — it is the organization man who succeeds. And he is characterized by the fact that he has significance only if he gives up his significance.”

Rollo May (1909–1994) US psychiatrist

“There's a pretty woman for ever lucky man in the world: every man in the world is a lucky man if he only knew it, so why waste time?”

William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer

“A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator

“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?”

Barbra Streisand (1942) American singer, actress, writer, film producer, and director

“A man is only as old as the woman he feels.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey