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

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

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’m here to fight for the re-education of what celebrity is: to say, ‚Yes, we are celebrities, but yes, we’re also innovators. We’re also inventors. We’re also thoughtful.‘

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.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

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

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

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.

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.

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

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

I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.

It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

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.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

If he invited you out, he’s got to pay.

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

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

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.

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.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions has a certain kinship to the view that the U.S. Constitution is a document essentially frozen in time as of the date of its ratification.

Never was it given to mortal man – To lie so boldly as we women can.

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

You could tell ‚The Handmaid’s Tale‘ from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

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

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I’ll leave those things to the men.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They’re not men.

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

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

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.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

Woman’s at best a contradiction still.

My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.

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.

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

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

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

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

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

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that’s an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.