" Wife Number One had a theory. There are two kinds of womanizer, she said.
There's the kind that loves women and the kind that hates them. You were the first kind, she said. She believed that women tended to be more forgiving, more understanding, and even protective of your kind. Less likely when wronged to want revenge.
Of course, it helps if the man is an artist, she said, or has some other type of noble calling.
Or is some kind of outlaw, was my thought. That type above all.
Q. What is it that makes a womanizer one type of the other?
A. His mother, of course. "

― Sigrid Nunez , The Friend