#oman

The real thing that keeps men and women apart, is fear. Women blame men and men blame women, but the culprit is fear, women are afraid of one thing, men are afraid of a different thing; the fears of women have to do with losing while the fears of men have to do with not being good enough for something. One is loss, the other is insecurity. Men are innately more insecure than women and women are innately more needful of companionship than men. It's good for both men and women to be able to recognize and identify these fears not only within themselves, but within each other, and then men and women will see that they really do need to help each other. It's not a game, it's not a competition, the two sexes need one another. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#identifying-fear #men-and-women #overcoming-fear #relationships #the-two-sexes

He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair...He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#men

Everybody's heart is like a cup. They stumble from place to place and person to person, trying to get them filled. They get cracked, those cups, and even broken. Some people throw them away, thinking that it will stop the pain. Poor fools. Nobody can fill a cup but Almighty God Himself. Nobody. ↗

— Linda Lael Miller

#men

They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#ladders-to-fire #this-hunger #woman #men

Love is a trick best performed by men. ↗

— Colin Tegerdine

#men #romance #women-and-men #love

We should live, my Lesbia, and love And value all the talk of stricter Old men at a single penny. Suns can set and rise again; For us, once our brief light has set, There's one unending night for sleeping. Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, Then another thousand, then a second hundred, Then still another thousand, then a hundred; Then, when we've made many thousands, We'll muddle them so as not to know Or lest some villain overlook us Knowing the total of our kisses. (Translated by Guy Lee) ↗

— Catullus

#kisses #lesbia #love #night #romance

But first of all he is a woodsman, and you aren't a woodsman unless you have such a feeling for topography that you can look at the earth and see what it would look like without any woods or covering on it. It's something like the gift all men wish for when they or young-- or old-- of being able to look through a woman's clothes and see her body, possibly even a little of her character. ↗

— Norman Maclean

#topography #woman #woodsman #men

Real MEN don't need a woman covering for him because a Real MAN IS a woman's covering! ↗

— Sanjo Jendayi

#covering #deserie-johnson #man #men #real

He was one of those capital M Men. ↗

— Lauren Dane

#men

I’m drawn to you, Alayna. Not because I want to hurt you or make you feel a certain way, but because you’re beautiful and sexy and smart and, yes, a little crazy, maybe, but you’re not broken. And that makes me hopeful. For me. ↗

— Laurelin Paige

#romance #beauty