#oman

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#man #now #recognized #romantic #small

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#deserving #desire #each #eyes #facade

Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it. ↗

— John Galliano

#another man #because #handle #how #know

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#best #contrary #equipped #ever #fighting

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#great #her #missions #woman

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#equally #gratify #laboratory #mankind #modern

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#enemy #every #fancies #far #friend

I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#astaire #black #black and white #class #especially

You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#child #come #get #her #them

My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about 'Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains.' ↗

— Carol Leifer

#always #anything #because #been #breaking