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“There’s lotsa bad apples out there. It ain’t you, it’s the bushel of fruit available for the pickinâ€� that’s the problem.”
― A.G. Russo, Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss

“I think there's something to the old saying that women use sex to get love, and men use love to get sex. And love is really just a word we use to describe a close bond, or relationship, between two people. Men have been programmed to want sex, so they do whatever is necessary to be in a relationship with a woman. And a woman is programmed to want the stability and (financial) security of a relationship, so she offers the man what he wants: sex.”
― Oliver Markus, Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends

“Funny how some things work out. I mean, how many pairs of eyes do you look into in a lifetime â€� hundreds, maybe even thousands? Yet, only one pair of eyes means anything and everything. Who knows why?”
― A.G. Russo, Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss

“Men pretend to be “just a friendâ€� at first, even though they want to sleep with you from day one. Otherwise they wouldn't be spending any time, money or attention on you, because these are limited resources and they need these resources to attract a mate. They can't afford to squander them. So they apply these resources to the female that looks to be their best bet to get laid. But they also know that they can't tell the woman on day one that they want to sleep with her, because she'd think it's creepy. So they play along with the illusion that it's “just a friendshipâ€� that “suddenlyâ€� developed into more, when the woman finally feels inclined to sleep with the guy “because they have a deep connection.â€� But that was really his goal from day one.”
― Oliver Markus, Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends

“Me Tarz-tosterone; You Estro-Jane”
― Tony Cleaver, A Chain of Flames

“Men know that most women want to have an emotional connection with someone before they sleep with them. Men know that a lot of women think it's romantic to be friends first, and then the friendship blossoms into a relationship. Men know that they have to jump through all these hoops first, before they can get laid. And that's really all romance and courtship is to a man: hoops he has to jump through to get laid.”
― Oliver Markus, Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends

“When you want something done, you ask a man. When you want it done quietly and without any fuss, you ask a woman.”
― Mercedes Lackey, The Wizard of London

“Oh, how I prefer the honest violence of men, who will bash in another man's skull and be done, to the thousand shallow cuts of women's malice.”
― Candace Fleming, Fatal Throne

“This is exactly what I meant by unfair, Abe. If I woulda brought a guy home and announced, ‘He’s staying with me in my room,â€� both you and Hank would’ve trussed him up and dragged him off Lawson land.â€�

“Not the same thing, Celia.�

Her gray eyes narrowed. “Why? Because you both have dicks? Or because you both are dicks?”
― Lorelei James, Corralled

“Check the top 1000 books on Amazon. Most of them have a shirtless guy on the cover, because they're smutty "romance novels" (read: porn for women) about a girl being swept off her feet by one (or more) billionaire alpha-males. There are literally tens of thousands of books out there about shirtless billionaire alpha-male vampires who can't wait to mate with you. Lucky you! And women eat that shit up! Men, not so much. Men prefer to watch actual porn.”
― Oliver Markus, Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends

“Women want to enjoy life today, men hope for a better tomorrow”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“There are only 24 hours in a day. The average man has to sleep about 8 hours. And work for 8 hours. That leaves 8 hours to run some errands, drive to and from work, eat, and have some spare time. And in that little bit of spare time, a man has to figure out how to get the one thing he likes more than anything else: sex.

So when a man has to choose whether or not he will hang out with a female and spend any time, money or attention on her, the question of whether the resources he spent will result in sex plays a very big factor. If your male "friend" chooses to spend his time and money on you, it's because he thinks there is a chance it might pay off in sex at some point. If he hangs out with you instead of with some other female, it's because he thinks you are his best bet to getting sex.

The more likely there will be sex, the more willing he is to spend his little bit of free time with you. If he thinks his chances of having sex are higher with a different female, he will spent more time, money and attention on her. That's just common sense, and using his limited resources wisely.”
― Oliver Markus, Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends

“I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men--great men-- must build monuments and seek fame?”
― Karen Essex, Stealing Athena

“A man's earthly possessions are in one of two places - the place he left them in or the place his significant other moved them to without telling him.”
― Stewart Stafford

“When a man's friend wins, a little piece of him dies.”
― Lois P. Frankel, Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers

“Men feel about sex the way vampires feel about blood. They don't just like it, they crave it. That's why vampire stories always have strong sexual undercurrents. A vampire's hunger is simply a metaphor for a man's lust. And if a guy is paying attention to you, he wants to have sex with you.”
― Oliver Markus, Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends

“There were honeys from across the city - Westport, Hollander Ridge, Gwynn Oak, Northwood. They were everything from redbone to yo-yo darkskin. The dimes among them carried Benetton bags, were dolled up like Lily Powers - finger waves, a head of dyed blond, and eyes like enchanted daggers. I saw we were outnumbered, as brothers who try the civilized way always are.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood

“Take me instead,' Mrs. Dang said, holding on to my arm tightly. 'I can fight if I have to. Leave my boy out of this.'
'Not a possibility,' he told her. 'In the old days, whenever I tangoed with Death, I needed my men. Death is here right now, and your son will do just fine.”
― Kien Nguyen, The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood

“When you fall in love with a woman, don't give all your devotion entirely. For some inexplicable reason, women don't like to be paid in full.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad

“Hierarchical male groups are good at mustering on the street and running into gunfire--another important task--but terrible at creating alliances.”
― Sebastian Junger, Freedom

“Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn’t break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out, very slowly.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath

“Give me a second to change."...
I don't want this to be one of those things where people look at us and think, 'see how much society expects from women, and how little they expect from men.”
― Therese Beharrie, A Ghost in Shining Armor

“Right!â€� Kala sighed. “I don’t know, maybe it would have been nice to have had a choice, rather than it being an expectation. It's as if we're all cattle, following the herd. Go to school, go to college, find a mate, start a career, get married, have children, and you're done. We were like brainwashed zombies in the nineties. I’m glad the younger generations are rebelling and changing the status quo, and not having kids, and demanding better working conditions.”
― Melanie Sovran Wolfe, Professor Hex vs. Texas Men: Where Women's Rights and Revenge Fantasy Meet

“Marketing got Eve. Sales got Adam.”
― Richie Norton