"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."
— John Lennon

"See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time."
— Robin Williamson

"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"
— Virginia Woolf

"In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman."
— Margaret Thatcher

"What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce."
— Mark Twain

"do you really think he likes me lizzi?"
"jane, he danced with you most of the night and stared at you the rest of it."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men."
— Mae West

"A study in the Washington Post says that women have
better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the
authors of that study: 'Duh.'"
— Conan O'Brien

"Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize. For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?", here's an update for you. Nowadays 80%of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!"
— Andy Rooney

"Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power."
— Gloria Steinem

"A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men."
— Gloria Steinem

"'I have been crying,' she replied, simply, 'and it has done me good. It helps a woman you know, just as swearing helps a man.'"
— Horace Annesley Vachell (The Romance of Judge Ketchum)

"It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin. "
— Dave Barry

"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men."
— Alice Walker

"Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain hes not the man she married?"
— Barbra Streisand

"Chocolate is, let's face it, far more reliable than a man."
— Miranda Ingram

"When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are. "
— Laurie Anderson

"Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them."
— Bill Maher

"I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them."
— Mae West

"Conversation between a princess and an outlaw:
"If I stand for fairy-tale balls and dragon bait--dragon bait--what do you stand for?"
"Me? I stand for uncertainty, insecurity, bad taste, fun, and things that go boom in the night."
"Franky, it seems to me that you've turned yourself into a stereotype."
"You may be right. I don't care. As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve."
"Well, you may get off on being a beautiful stereotype, regardless of the social consequences, but my conscience won't allow it."
"And I goddamn refuse to be dragon bait. I'm as capable of rescuing you as you are of rescuing me."
"I'm an outlaw, not a hero. I never intended to rescue you. We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves."
— Tom Robbins

"...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."
— Abigail Adams

"Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll?

I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger."
— Cher

"Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man."
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"Some people are boys longer than others."
— Patricia Briggs (Iron Kissed)

"Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in love. You have to teach them the very basics of emotional literacy. You have to teach them how to be there for you, and part of me feels tender toward them and gentle, and part of me is so afraid of them, afraid of any more violation."
— Anne Lamott (Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year)

"To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism."
— Gregory Hartley (I Can Read You Like a Book: How to Spot the Messages and Emotions People Are Really Sending With Their Body Language)

"Skinny guys fight till they're burger."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

"A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, thought the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen."
— Virginia Woolf (Orlando)

"I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

"Intelligent men are dangerous."
— Patricia Briggs (Dragon Bones)

"If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead."
— Erma Bombeck

"...and then she realized: they WERE all alike!"
— Anne Taintor

"But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may."
— D.H. Lawrence (Lady Chatterley's Lover)

"Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so."
— Charles de Gaulle

"If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting."
— Colette (Gigi)

""Ladies should also remember that gentlemen look more to the effect of a dress in setting off the figure and countenance of a lady than to its cost. Very few gentlemen have any idea the value of ladies' dresses. This is a subject for female criticism. Beauty of person and elegance of manners in women will always command more admiration from the opposite sex than beauty, elegance or costliness of clothing."
The Scholars' Companion and Ball Room Vade Mecum
Thomas Hillgrove, 1857"
— Thomas Hillgrove

"It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world."
— Ian Fleming (Goldfinger)

"And he likes to torment me, and laughs when I get upset when he does. No, of course not. I do not love Jack Elliot. He is low and coarse and a soldier, and not the kind of man I want to spend my life with."
— Nancy E. Turner (These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 : A Novel)

"Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal."
— Thomas Hardy (Under the Greenwood Tree)

"Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be."
— Nora Ephron

"Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea."
— Charlotte Brontë

"I'm a man. Men cook outside. That outdoor grilling is a manly pursuit has long been beyond question. If this wasn't understood, you'd never get grown men to put on those aprons with pictures of dancing weenies on the front, and messages like 'Come 'n' Get It!' "
— William Geist

"Well, there is rough old Albert, as ornery as any big brother a girl could have, putting his arm around Savannah and cooing to her like a repenting hound dog, and promising her she is not common nor shameful. I watched all this and thought you just never know sometimes what's in a man's heart. When you think he is all tough nails and boards he can be different on the inside. It makes me wonder about other men I know, too."
— Nancy E. Turner (These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 : A Novel)

"The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes."
— George Eliot (Middlemarch)

"The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed into the background. 'But what happens to man's desires when there is plenty of food and his belly in chronically filled? At once, other (and higher) needs emerge and these, rather than the psychological hungers, dominate the organism.'"
— Betty Friedan (Feminine Mystique)