You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door. – Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887

This is Scott Fitzgerald: very romantic writer—big with English majors, college girls, nymphomaniacs… – Woody Allen, Sleeper, 1973

When we look on the characters of man and woman, we cannot but perceive that neither is perfect by itself, but that each needs the other for its perfection…. Hence the one must be softened by tender emotions, and the other strengthened by firmness. – Frederick A. Rauch, Psychology; or, A View of the Human Soul: Including Anthropo