“Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.”

Original: Adoro le donne che non si lasciano domare. Quelle che graffiano e mordono, ma sanno amare.
Source: prevale.net

Source: The Tamarisk Tree (1975), Ch. XIV

Act II
1890s, The Philanderer (1893)

Source: Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart

How to... Love, Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life’s Smaller Challenges (2004).

Source: Neveryóna (1983), Chapter 7, “Of Commerce, Capital, Myths, and Missions” (p. 147)

infinity plus interview (2001)
Context: Historical processes have never much interested me, but history is full of stories, full of triumph and tragedy and battles won and lost. It is the people who speak to me, the men and women who once lived and loved and dreamed and grieved, just as we do. Though some may have had crowns on their heads or blood on their hands, in the end they were not so different from you and me, and therein lies their fascination. I suppose I am still a believer in the now unfashionable "heroic" school, which says that history is shaped by individual men and women and the choices that they make, by deeds glorious and terrible.

Some Men are More Perfect Than Others (1973)