“When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.”
Gail Sheehy
“Women with "pasts" interest men because men hope that history will repeat itself.”
Mae West
“When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.”
Elayne Boosler
“Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful - but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.”
Robert Mueller
“Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?”
Barbra Streisand
“What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.”
Mary Austin