Housework never really bothered me… what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be your life… when you’re a housewife, you are constantly interrupted. You have no space in your life. It isn’t the fact that you do the laundry.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church – things like that – I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they’re afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

In the ’50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.

I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there’s so much pressure on you.

I always wished for this, but it’s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

I’ve been getting some bad publicity – but you got to expect that.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

I’ve never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn’t mean they’re going to be that way.

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It’s fine to be a pop star. ‚Oh, it’s great, lots of fun, aren’t they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!‘

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

Just because you make a good plan, doesn’t mean that’s what’s gonna happen.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

Say there’s a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter – for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that’s saying is that he’s living a fantasy life of rebellion.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.

People – especially white people – they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

The masculine spirit is under assault. It’s obvious.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.