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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.‘

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Woman’s at best a contradiction still.

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

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

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

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