20 Quotes from Butter book by Asako Yuzuki

Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 20 quotes from Butter book by Asako Yuzuki that I underlined while reading the book. I hope you will like these quotes too.

By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.

Butter Quotes

There are two things that I simply cannot tolerate: feminists and margarine.
Nobody has to be fully satisfied by just one thing, and nor do they have to aim to be like everyone else. It's plenty if people can enjoy things a good amount, and be satisfied with their life overall. Enjoying a cigarette after a meal is okay, and putting on a little weight isn't anything to merit fussing about.
Women who love to cook are so delighted when someone asks them for a recipe that they'll tell you all kinds of things you haven't asked for along with it. It's a law of nature.
All women should give themselves permission to demand good treatment, but the world made doing so profoundly difficult.
There is nothing in this world so pathetic, so moronic, so meaningless as dieting. For what purpose, exactly, do you want to lose weight? Are you worried about not being attractive to men? Because in that case, you have nothing to fear. Men are naturally attracted to shapely, full-figured women. When I say men, I'm of course referring to real men, who are emotionally mature, affluent, and capable of generosity. Men who favour women with bodies like skinny children are the ones with no confidence in themselves. They're without exception servile, sexually and emotionally immature, with no capacity for financial generosity, either.
Caring for, supporting and warming the hearts of men is women's god-given role, and, without fail, performing it makes women beautiful. They become goddesses. Don't you see? You find so many hard, spiky women these days because they lack love towards men, and are unsatisfied as a result. You have to understand that women can never hope to rival men's power. That's nothing to be ashamed of. When you acknowledge the differences between the sexes, when you accept men for how they are and work to support and please them, a future of freedom and abundance awaits you. Everyone is suffering because they're trying to rail against the natural order of things.
Women's obsession with work and independence and so on is the source of their dissatisfaction. When women surpass men, their chance for romance slips away from them. Men and women alike need to understand that they can't find happiness without each other. If you scrimp on butter, your food will taste inferior, and if you scrimp on femininity and a wish to serve your partner then your relationships will grow impoverished – why can't you fathom that?
Japanese women are required to be self-denying, hard-working and ascetic, and in the same breath, to be feminine, soft and caring towards men. Everyone finds that an impossible balance to strike, and they struggle desperately as a result. Even when they do manage to strike it, there's no redemption to be had. They're never fully free.
If you were accepted by just one person, then you didn't need to be someone whose beauty was acknowledged by everyone.
I think not taking care of yourself properly is a form of violence.
I've started to realise that nothing ever happens if you don't impose on people.
That someone should reach adulthood without tasting a freshly baked cake is a misfortune of irredeemable proportions!
The ultimate happiness for women is to find their soulmate, raise his children, and make delicious food. And to do so is to make a contribution to society.
It's the same for all you women. You can't be comfortable with a member of your own sex unless you feel that she's inferior to you in some way.
Spend enough time with someone and there'll inevitably be moments when you find them a nuisance and wish they'd disappear.
Cooking is enjoyable, but the moment it becomes a duty, it grows boring. The same is true of sex, and fashion, and beauty. When you're forced to do something, it becomes a chore, and the pleasure disappears.
I still don't feel I've got my head around marriage, but I'm sure it must be easier when you've got an escape. I don't mean infidelity, obviously. I mean a place that you can go to drink a cup of coffee when you feel stuck. Then your husband could come and collect you. I feel like that alone would be enough. Just because you're family doesn't mean you have to share absolutely everything.
What is the truth, though, really? What is a lie? There's such a small discrepancy between the two. Given that, what's so wrong about choosing whichever path seems more appealing to you? What's so wrong about coating barren, flavourless reality in oodles of melted butter and seasoning it with condiments and spices? That's my way of getting by in life, which has come about quite naturally. A kind of evolution, rooted in history. Do you really believe that everything deserves to be confronted.
Japanese people have a bad habit of trying too hard when entertaining. We try to do everything perfectly all by ourselves, and that's why the habit of inviting people round and enjoying it in a relaxed way hasn't caught on in this country .
This world deserved to be lived in. Or, no – this world deserved to be tasted, greedily.