“The only problem with one-man woman was that he was not a one-woman man.”
Rachel Gibson (1961) American writer
Source: I'm In No Mood For Love
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Harmonium (1923)
“The only problem with one-man woman was that he was not a one-woman man.”
Rachel Gibson (1961) American writer
Source: I'm In No Mood For Love
“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
“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
“The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.”
Agatha Christie book The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
“In the blood of Eden,
Lie the woman and the man.
With the man in the woman,
And the woman in the man.”
Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian
Blood of Eden
Song lyrics, Us (1992)
Paul of Tarsus book First Epistle to the Corinthians
I Corinthians 11:8-10
First Epistle to the Corinthians
“My personal belief is that marriage is between one man and one woman, for life.”
Mike Huckabee (1955) Arkansas politician
Context: I support and have always supported passage of a federal constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman. As President, I will fight for passage of this amendment. My personal belief is that marriage is between one man and one woman, for life.
“When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.”
Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist
Source: What Happens in London