Latest Quotes

“Busy is another word for asshole. Asshole is another word for the guy you're dating.”

— Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

“A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.”

— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

“I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows where I am. He knows I'm waiting here. He's so sure of me, so sure. I wonder why…”

— Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

“Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him.”

— Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary

“Work/life integration seems to me a better goal than balance. Balance suggests that our lives are in two parts. The more mindful we are, the less we compartmentalize our lives.”

— Ellen J. Langer, Mindfulness

“If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.”

— W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

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

— W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

“When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.”

— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.”

— Virginia Satir, The Satir Model: Family Therapy and Beyond

“Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.”

— L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest

“Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”

— George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?

“Genius or jock, it didn't seem to matter. Boys were born with a gene that kept girls, no matter how smart they might be, from understanding them.”

— Charity Tahmaseb, The Geek Girl's Guide to Cheerleading

“Boys are different from girls. Girls like to be cozy all the time but boys don't. First of all, they like to get all close to you like a coiled-up rubber band, but after a while, they get fed up with being too coiled and need to stretch away to their full stretchiness. Then, after a bit of on-their-…”

— Louise Rennison, On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God

“I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own”

— Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?”

— Adriana Trigiani, Viola in Reel Life

“The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play”

— Erik Erikson, Psychology Of Religion

“Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.”

— , Love Stinks

“Thanks to Scoop, I've learned a lot about how the male mind works, and as a result I've been having nightmares for months.”

— Yvonne Collins, Boy v. Girl

“All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting room until someone noticed you - the boys had spent that time becoming themselves.”

— Emma Cline, The Girls

“Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.”

— James Thurber, The Parents' Guide to Boys