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…
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Quotes tagged ‘Dating’
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.
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.
You have the rest of your life to let a man screw it up!
I don't really go on dates.
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.
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.
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….
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.
I mean, she's giving and caring and genuinely concerned about the welfare of others—I can't be with someone like that.
If I date a taking person, everyone's taking, taking, taking, no one's giving—it's bedlam.
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?
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.’
I’m just saying there's a chance she may not have been enamored with your thoughts and feelings on manure.
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.