Alison Lurie Quotes

The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.

They say men and women can't be friends, but that's not true.

I was very interested in the relationship between the man who speaks and the woman who listens. I was drawn to the idea that the relationship between a man and a woman can be something like a war itself, very cruel and violent.

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.

In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain.

Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship.

I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road.

Something that always fascinated me was the psychology and the psychology differences between men and women and how we relate to one another.

I do believe men and women can share healthy, long-lasting platonic relationships.

[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.

There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.

war and the 'war of the sexes' are neither divinely nor biologically ordained.

Having women work with men is like having a grizzly bear work with salmon . . . dipped in honey.

We 've lost something else: the relationship between men and women.

Most of these feminists are radical, frustrated lesbians, many of them, and man-haters, and failures in their relationships with men, and who have declared war on the male gender. The biblical condemnation of feminism has to do with its radical philosophy and goals. That's the bottom line.

We are at war with men, and most women don't even know it.

Male bashing is everywhere. It would be a mistake to view the current situation as another skirmish in the war between the sexes. Women have been doing the shooting, and men have been burying their heads in the sand, hoping the bullets will miss.

Love between a man and woman is war.

Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another.

There's no war that will end all wars.

I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.

You can usually tell when a couple becomes centered on each other because they are forever breaking up and getting back together.

Developments since the rise of National Socialism make it probable that the continent will be freed from its Jewish destroyers of people and exploiters forever, and the German example after the German victory in World War II will also serve to bring about the destruction of the Jewish world tormentors on other continents.