“M: I don't have relationships at all. It's out of the question.
NK: Why?
M: Partly because I was always attracted to men or women who were never attracted to me. And I was never attracted to women or men who were attracted to me. So that's the problem. I've never met the right person.”

“I had crushes on women — actually I loved charismatic, extreme people, women or men. By high school I was saying I must be a lesbian, because if you are attracted to women, you're a lesbian. I was also attracted to men, but I didn't get along with men.”

“Having never discovered qualities in myself that might attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.”

“There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.”

“Like many of her sex, Sophie was fiercely competitive with other women, working on the crackpot theory that if she could be better in some way, men would like her more, respect her. Make her happy. She never cottoned on that the men she was attracted to, the men who found her attractive, didn’t like women.”

“It is no big deal to me. I have always been attracted to women, and I went on dates with women if they asked me…. It did not seem that different to me. But then I met my [husband], and now he is the apple of my eye.”

“Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.”

“There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm. Men will always be attracted to women with nice soft arms and a fleshy bosom.”

“We never attract what we want, we always attract what we are.”

“Men and women in their mutual attraction are driven to the very emptiness they are trying to avoid.”