Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on men

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
• Women

Men always want to be a woman’s first love; women have a more subtle instinct: what they like is to be a man’s last romance.

Oscar Wilde1854–1900

• Women

Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.

Ian Fleming1908–1964

• Sex
• Women