Bill Cosby Quotes

Having had that experience... I think, what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I don't think you can tell a story on film nowadays where the woman simply is there for the man when he decides to settle down.

I've been writing about misogyny for 20 years and trying to understand what femininity means for my entire career.

Women are everywhere. We're letting them play golf and tennis now. It's out of control.

One of the biggest misconceptions that a woman has is that a man has to accept her the way she is. No, we don't. I don't know who told you that. We like the bright and shiny. If you stop wearing the makeup, stop putting on nail polish, stop wearing high heels, you'll lose us.

Man was created to frame the woman.

I don't think men realize that when a woman walks out every single day, there's an unconscious way we cater to making some man comfortable. That's our experience.

Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man always has yielded woman the palm.

It's time for men to be held accountable when they make women feel uncomfortable or do things out of line.

It was always the cliche of men leaving their wives for younger women. The playing field is sort of even now. Women make their own salaries. They can do the exact same thing and can have a younger man.

In Saudi society, women are extremely respected. I never had an issue with that at all.

Men and women understand different things about personal boundaries. What men call privacy, women know as secrecy.

I'm not going to degrade women, and that's very anti-hip-hop.

Women are interested in relationships and how other societies manage those relationships. They may have been constrained in what roles were open to them, but they could question and observe, and they could write it down.

I remember, when I got my first period, I was almost afraid to tell me mother, who's quite an open, loving person. But I felt really weird; the chat just wasn't there.

When values disappear, the first people to suffer are women because people start losing their respect for women.

Men love strong and independent women. Always have and always will!

They send women into combat without being prepared for women in combat. The men resented them being there, and it was just very, very difficult for them, and they had to fight for the respect they were earning. And that's all they want is the respect.

Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time.

[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.

[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.

I don't know how women stop being friends with other women.

Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.

We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women.

I know men are delicate origami creatures who need women to unfold them, hold them when they cry. But I am tired of being your savior and I am tired of telling you why.