Sylvia Plath Quotes

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy to the transparent devices by which she snared him.

Men like me because I dont wear a brassiere. Women like me because I dont look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.

Hogamus, higamous Man is polygamous Higamus, hogamous Woman monogamous.

I became a stand-up comedienne because I had a sit-down husband.

The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.

When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad.

When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.

Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.

Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid, even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up, they were so used to quarrelling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;Girls aren't like that.

I'm a person who's been in a long-term relationship. It's not surprising that a lot of my friends - whether they're in same-sex relationships or not, whether they're married officially or just in a long-term relationship - have really interesting and various stages in their relationship. My life is looking at these friendships and saying, "Wait a minute, isn't this something really interesting? How can I explore this?"

The desire for freedom and independence becomes more of an issue for many men in relationships, whereas interdependence and connection become more of an issue for many women.

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

The third basic need of a male in a relationship is an attractive woman; for a woman, honesty and openness.

Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.

A man leads with his mind while a woman leads with her heart.