Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Historically, it appears that society has capitalized on what is at most a degree of difference between the sexes in order to institutionalize the polarization of aggression.

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.

The first thing that strikes the careless observer is that women are unlike men. They are 'the opposite sex' - (though why 'opposite' I do not know; what is the 'neighbouring sex'?).

I read recently in an article by G.K. Chesterton, that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving the flags without doing any of the fighting. From a woman such words, though displaying inexperience, might come with dignity; from a man they are an unforgivable, intolerable insult. What is man's part in sex but a perpetual waving of flags and blowing of trumpets and avoidance of the fighting?

If a guy married a woman and the guy was more famous, the world wouldn't deem it an inequal relationship. But if you have a guy marrying a woman who is more well-known, more, in quotes, "powerful," more wealthy, then there's a kind of reverse sexism that comes out, right?

When guys talk about sex, eyebrows don't get raised. It's different for girls.

People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're not so interesting.

The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.

I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.

For women raised in the '70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they're associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering.

Women are liked better when they lose.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

There is a sense that women are more anchored than men in our society.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

The more successful you are as a man, the more you're liked. And the more successful you are as a woman, the more you're disliked.

It's not that I am saying that women and men are completely different. But I do think that if you are one of the only people around the table who is a woman, by definition, you're different.

Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.

There's competitiveness in everything. In any job, I'm sure. I think there's also this stereotype that women together are catty and competitive, which is just - nobody ever talks about men being catty or competitive. I don't think that's fair.