Havelock Ellis Quotes

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.

I think being ambitious, successful, powerful, making a lot of money - I don't care what color you are as a woman; it's difficult to find a mate. I think the natural order is that men want to be providers.

To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.

Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.

I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I've got them pegged, I pay for it.

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.

In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.

When I was a teenager, I used to love the Bronte books, 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Jane Eyre.' In those books, the women do usually manage to heal the men, but in life, I've found it's often the woman gets wounded. Instead of healing a man, she gets affected by his cruelty.

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.

I gotta be honest with you. I'm kind of jealous of the way my dad gets to talk to my mom sometimes. Where are all those old-school women you can just take your day out on? When did they stop making those angels?

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.

In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

The man is meant to be the alpha in the relationship on the money and power front.

My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my home, I'm not very democratic. I think of myself as a benevolent dictator.

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

All women like to look up to their men.

I think most couples drift apart because of comparisons. Unfortunately, in our society a perfect match is when the man is more successful than the woman.

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world. Just because we got rid of the father of the nation in Egypt or Tunisia, Mubarak or Ben Ali, and in a number of other countries, does not mean that the father of the family does not still hold sway.

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

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.