The Don Juan Files

"He laughed:'What do you think it means to be an womanizer?', he said (it was one of his favourite words in English, he liked to roll it on his tongue, wo-man-i-zer). 'A womanizer is a man who breaks you up and makes you come together again like a woman. Like an a-tom-i-zer that break you up unto atoms. It is only men who hate womanizers, from jealousy. Women appreciate a womanizer. A woman and a womanizer belong naturally together' ".

JM Coetzee, Diary of a bad year