“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”

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

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

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

“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?”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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