Doris Day Quotes

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

I understand men much better than most women I know.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

There is a fundamental difference between men and women - women need romance, men need intrigue.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

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.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

There are certain things women are better at than men.

I think human beings have a really broad spectrum of traits, and I almost feel implicated when we say, 'Men are like this, women are like this.' Nobody was telling me, 'Don't get dirty, don't play in the mud, girls don't do that.'

Overall, women are a lot more fun to work with than a bunch of men.

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.