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- The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment and the quick fix. The earthly rhythms that characterize a more pastoral way of life have been shunted aside to make room for the fast track of an urbanized existence. Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves increasingly alienated from the ecological choreography of the planet.
- Jeremy Rifkin
- A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
- Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
- A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
- Gloria Steinem (1934 - )
- It's been through three wives. To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.
- Waylon Jennings on his Telecaster
- There's a great woman behind every idiot.
- John Lennon (1940 - 1980)
- Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Being a woman is of special interest to aspiring male transexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and giver a house.
- Lewis Grizzard
- It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
- Helen Rowland (1876 - 1950)
- Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman?
Hell no!" - Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
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