Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason. – François Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims
Mens need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it. – Marilyn French