Julia Quinn Quotes

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

All men hate the nagging.

Why can't ladies like nice guys?

Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy.

Strong women only marry weak men.

When men act up by being degrading, dismissive, condescending, shut off, or sullen, that can often dumbfound you as a woman and get you off balance. At that point, you can feel and look like a deer in the headlights, which makes you even more vulnerable to such a man's next volley of vitriol.

I've thought long and hard about this, and I think a lot of the dysfunction around dating has to do with men having the control.

How sad is that life when a man thinks that his manliness comes with asking sexual favours from a woman. That's the saddest way of being a man.

I noticed in the past, a lot of guys who like strong women, they really freak out if you're not strong 24/7. Or they complain about you being strong, then the moment you're not strong, they're like, 'Oh, no, no, no.'

I personally always find something really scary about watching little girls learning to manipulate their dads by baby talking. Then they grow up and use the same technique on their boyfriends or husbands. That scares me because it's just so sick on so many levels.

Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

Among the emasculation men fear most is subordination to women.

Women cannot complain about men until they start gettting better taste in them.

If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave.

I've been in thousands of conversations dripping with misogyny. I've initiated many of those conversations myself. From my fraternity roots to my bachelor days in New York, I know I have not always shown up in ways that I am proud of.

Men always like what the ladies like.

In America, nobody's boyfriend wants them to be smarter than he is, and no one wants to admit it.

Our culture is bloodthirsty for stories about women in pain; we hunger for women to expose their traumas and to be rescued by the love of a good man.

Oh my gosh, I mean, I've had many experiences of men calling me psycho.

Girls get screwed. Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things. The way things work, how guys feel great, but make girls feel cheap for doing exactly what they beg for. The way they get to play you, all the while claiming they love you and making you believe it's true. The way it's okay to gift their heart one day, a backhand the next, to move on to the apricot when the peach blushes and bruises. These things make me believe God's a man after all.

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.