George Bernard Shaw Quotes

A man must know how to act in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world.

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men. But where I draw the line, what I absolutely won't do, is the lady who plays bridge in the afternoon!

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.

The United States is considered a puritanical society by many Western nations. For example, they can't believe we hassle public servants like General David Petraeus because he had a mistress. In France, if a powerful man doesn't have a mistress, he's considered a wimp.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

I'm eulogised by a lot of men, but they wouldn't take me home to meet their mothers.

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

To say you want to be a director is to risk sounding obnoxious, pretentious, arrogant, and I think women are more fearful of sounding that way than men are.

You look at someone like Beyonce singing 'Single Ladies,' when we all know she's married. Some of it is just for entertainment.

My entire life had been this long, pressured conversation about the family I represented. 'When you walk out the door, you represent us. You have to dress well and make sure your hair is combed.'

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves.

Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something having to do with being a respectable Negro woman who would make the people in Baltimore proud.

But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.

Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.

Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.

I think it's a very female trait to want to please men and to want to be considered the Cool Girl. And if you take that to the farthest reach, where you're actually selling yourself out and degrading yourself by doing things you don't actually want to do, only in order for this man to think that you do, that's a very perverse thing.

I was raised in a very Middle Eastern household, and modesty was very important, and dressing to not be desirable or provocative was very important.