Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on women

The problem with gender, is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are.

Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage.

A man who would be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988Glory Road (1963)

• Animals
• Men

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity.

Albert Einstein1879–1955

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman⁠—they remain beautiful and the rebuke recoils.

Winston Churchill1874–1965

• Beauty