“A dog, a woman, an’ a walnut tree,

Th’ more yeh beat ‘em, th’ better they be!”

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

“Japan is like a woman that he can’t live with, and can’t live without, you know?”

Michael Crichton, Rising Sun

“Any man who dies in his sleep is said by them [the North people] to be strangled by the maran, or mare of the night. This creature is woman, which makes such a death shameful, for to die at the hands of a woman is degrading above all things.”

Michael Crichton, The 13th Warrior

“Even children have a sense of feminine beauty, or at least they understand instinctively whether a woman is pure or not.”

Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi – Book One: The Way of the Samurai

“Man’s arrogance is boastful, woman’s is something in the fibre.”

John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

“A real man’s anger is an expression of moral indignation. Anger over petty emotional trifles is for women, not men.”

Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi – Book One: The Way of the Samurai