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

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

Personally I’m not a feminist, as I can’t stand puritans.

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.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

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

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

Certainly a woman should never disguise the fact that she is a woman. A woman’s body is very beautiful.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

Women are considered deep – why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.

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

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

We’re always looking over our shoulders, ‚what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?‘ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

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

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.

Men want to make women happy.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

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.

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.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

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.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

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

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

Women don’t try to use me.

When I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you’re called to do, it’s more of a distraction.

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

I laugh and joke, but I don’t get distracted very easily.

A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

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.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

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

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits – you know, like we just don’t give a damn.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

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.

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

I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

Woman was God’s second mistake.

The Internet is a big distraction.

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

The X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.