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

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.

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

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.

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

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

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

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.

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

Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

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.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

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

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.

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.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

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

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

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

If anyone thinks they’d rather be in a different part of history, they’re probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You’d probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

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

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context.

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

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

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.

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

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.‘

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

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.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

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

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.

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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