“A man and a woman
Are one.
A man and a woman and a blackbird
Are one.”
Wallace Stevens book Harmonium
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Harmonium (1923)
Source: I'm In No Mood For Love
“A man and a woman
Are one.
A man and a woman and a blackbird
Are one.”
Wallace Stevens book Harmonium
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Harmonium (1923)
“It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.”
Virginia Woolf book A Room of One's Own
Variant: It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly.... Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated.
Source: A Room of One's Own
“Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.”
Pedro Arrupe (1907–1991) Twenty-eighth Superior General of the Society of Jesus
'Men for Others' http://www.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/men-for-others.html, 1973, Valencia, Spain
“The woman takes one for all, and the man all for one.”
Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Czech playwright and publicist
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“A silent man is a thinking man. A silent woman is an angry one …”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Styxx