“Yet men are still expected to be protectors and providers. I’ll admit that I benefit from this dynamic. I love that men want to defend the ones they love with strength and fierce determination. I go weak in the knees when a man I’m seeing comes to rescue me from a broken pipe or possessed electronic…”— Shannon Lell, washingtonpost.com
“I keep running up against this power dynamic in the dating world, and I blame our culture’s preoccupation with wealth. For many decades, men had greater access to high-paying careers. They still have more access than women do, but the gender pay gap is narrowing.”— Shannon Lell, washingtonpost.com
“Our society likes women to be smart and beautiful but also quiet and appeasing. When a woman is opinionated or more traditionally “successful,” it can be threatening to her male partner.”— Shannon Lell, washingtonpost.com
“Date someone who texts you after hanging out with you to say they had a great time and can’t wait to see you again.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“I've tried it straight, Jerry. We've all seen the results. For me, sick is the only way to go.”— Jennifer Crittenden, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
“Oh my God...you're in jail? That is so cool!”— Jennifer Crittenden, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
“I'm sorry, Elaine. I always knew that after I became a doctor, I would dump whoever I was with and find someone better. That's the dream of becoming a doctor.”— David Mandel, Steve Koren, Ben, Bob Odenkirk, imdb.com
“All of a sudden it hit me, I realized what the problem is: I can't be with someone like me. I hate myself! If anything, I need to get the exact opposite of me. It's too much. It's too much, I can't take it. I can't take it….”— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
“Well, we've gone out several times, we obviously have a good rapport. I own a very profitable electronics-distributing firm. I eat well. I exercise. Blood tests—immaculate. And if I can speak frankly, I'm actually quite good at it.”— Peter Mehlman, Billy, Scott Patterson, imdb.com
“I mean, she's giving and caring and genuinely concerned about the welfare of others—I can't be with someone like that.”— Peter Mehlman, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
“If I date a taking person, everyone's taking, taking, taking, no one's giving—it's bedlam.”— Peter Mehlman, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
“I'd rather be dating the blind. You know you could let the house go. You could let yourself go. A good-looking blind woman doesn't even know you're not good enough for her.”— Tom Gammill, Max Pross, Tom Gammill and Max Pross, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
“Take toilet paper, for example. Do you realize that toilet paper has not changed in my lifetime? It's just paper on a cardboard roll, that's it. And in ten thousand years, it will still be exactly the same because really, what else can they do?”— Larry David, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
“You're not out there! You can't be, because I am out there. And if I see you out there, there's not enough voltage in this world to electroshock me back into coherence!”— Marjorie Gross, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
“Elaine, do you know what you've done? You've give hope to every woman who's ever said, ‘Too bad he's gay.’”— Carol Leifer, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
“I’m just saying there's a chance she may not have been enamored with your thoughts and feelings on manure.”— Fred Stoller, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
“I'm the opposite of every guy you've ever met.”— Andy Cowan, Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
“You know what I've come to realize? I'm not just bored. I genuinely dislike her.”— Larry David, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com