“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”

“A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.”

“Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.”

“Romance novels are tales of brave women taming dangerous men. They are stories that capture the excitement of that most mysterious of relationships, the one between a woman and a man. They are legends told to women by other women, and they are as powerful and as endlessly fascinating to women as the legends that lie at the heart of all the other genres.”

“What was romance but a lovely bit of play between man and woman?”

“Success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively for women. When a man is successful, he is liked by both men and women. When a woman is successful, people of both genders like her less.”