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Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#men

If you are one of earth’s inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see their wondrous child go to the dancing! But one man’s destiny is more than blest—he who prevails, and takes you as his bride. Never have I laid eyes on equal beauty in man or woman. I am hushed indeed. ↗

— Homer

#beauty #happiness #love #marriage #marriage

I am a man" he told her, "and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone woman, and bring me something brown. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-glass #clare #isabelle #jace #men

No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it. ↗

— Elizabeth Peters

#men #women #men

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#gender-stereotypes #men #women #men

I hate men who are afraid of women's strength. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#feminism #woman #women-s-strenth #love

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

— Woody Allen

#men-and-women #love

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#men #woman #women #men

No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons. ↗

— Ishmael Reed

#novels #writers #writing #men

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#dorian-gray #marriage #men #relationships #women