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

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

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.

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

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

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.

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.

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

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.‘

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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