Quotes
Quotes about Women
What men and women need is encouragement. . . . Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits.
. . . while men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.
. . . what women want is what men want. They want respect.
A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.
Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
I hate women because they always know where things are.
Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.
Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds.
Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us.
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier.
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves. -Betty Friedan.
All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations. -Marge Piercy.
Women are the real architects of society. -Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. -Timothy Leary.
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes. -Clare Boothe Luce.
Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.
