“Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.”

“A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

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

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be”

Edith Wharton book The House of Mirth

“No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

“Woman wants monogamy;
Man delights in novelty.
Love is woman's moon and sun;
Man has other forms of fun.
Woman lives but in her lord;
Count to ten, and man is bored.
With this the gist and sum of it,
What earthly good can come of it?”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

“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

“The world was sad, the garden was a wild,
And man the hermit sigh'd — till woman smiled.”

Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) British writer

“The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.”

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

“… no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.”

Pearl Cleage (1948) American novelist