#exes

How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes just are, that they are in the nature of the beasts, because each sex has an evolved tendency to develop that way in response to experience. ↗

— Matt Ridley

#psychoanalysis #psychology #sexes #experience

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys. ↗

— Woody Allen

#being #car #guys #i #once

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#cause #divide #love #means #misunderstandings

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#defending #does #duty #guilt #itself

The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical. ↗

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#being #each #equals #equivalents #identical

I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It's crazy. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#both #circulated #crazy #friends #i

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#austere #between #chastity #christianity #close