“No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.”

“[Everyone needs] a woman who'll listen, take your side, tell the truth - or not, as you need it. A woman you can count on, no matter what, and who'll love you no matter how much you screw up.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

“A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves.”

Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter

“In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

“She takes just like a woman, yes she does
She makes love just like a woman, yes she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

“When a man comes to love a woman exactly as she had dreamed, she decides he is a weakling.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

“No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

“A woman loves to be obeyed at first, although afterwards she finds her pleasure in obeying.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book The Suicide Club

“It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer