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In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

If it's a woman, its caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative. -Barbara Walters.

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met. -Farrah Fawcett.

A woman's head is always influenced by heart; but a man's heart by his head. -Lady Marguerite Blessington.

On one issue, at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.

When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.

I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting.

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.