In economies in which women work, men and women in relationships make about the same amount of money, or women make more. Women are 40 percent of bre…

- Stephen Marche

The easier sex gets, the less intimate every sexual act gets. In the Victorian period, a kiss was like a f - k. And now, you know, when actual sexual…

- Stephen Marche

Marriage is not one point of view: it's a constant back and forth over different perspectives - a healthy marriage, anyway.

- Stephen Marche

You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart.

- Stephen Marche

Men talk about masculinity through sports and clothes. They don't talk about gender, they talk about LeBron James and whether it's okay to wear lipst…

- Stephen Marche

As you get closer to equality, you get more pornography. True patriarchal societies like Saudi Arabia do not allow pornography because women are not …

- Stephen Marche

Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books. There are well-written bo…

- Stephen Marche

Whenever I read a book about a marriage, I always feel I'm being lied to.

- Stephen Marche

Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time.

- Stephen Marche