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- Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. — Joseph Joubert
- Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. — Oscar Wilde
- A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane. — Jane Harrison
- To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman. — Jane Harrison
- A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone. — Jane Harrison