I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

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

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

It’s in the best interest of the radical left types – best psychological and strategic interest – to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.

The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.

People take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.

Anti-Semitism is real in this country.

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.

You know how arrogant the French are – extraordinary.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Why don’t Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

With all singers, insecurity is your best security. That’s why we’re such loud people and why we walk all funny. You think, ‚Are people interested?‘ But I think our band has something and they know we don’t just put albums out. We do think about it.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

The French complain of everything, and always.

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

I have no human feelings.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

People have a negative impression of New York that I don’t think is quite fair.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.