D. H. Lawrence Quotes

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

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.

I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

All men hate the nagging.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

It seems women are expected to be so much more than men, which means we have to work that much harder. We're the ones under the microscope. We're expected to sound perfect. We're expected to look perfect all the time. We're expected to be style-setters, whereas the boys roll onto the stage in their jeans, T-shirts and baseball caps.

For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman's intelligence was a man's deception.

I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.

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.

Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.

What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.

I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men.

Strong women only marry weak men.

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.

To be honest, I really don't like being the sex object.

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

I keep trying to write a bad boy and they always come out nice. I don't see the appeal of someone who is going to demean me in some way.

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

While Muslim men describe themselves as insecure in their harems, real or imagined, Westerners describe themselves as self-assured heroes with no fears of women. The tragic dimension so present in Muslim harems - fear of women and male self-doubt - is missing in the Western harem.

I've always been so confused about being a girl. Not in a Bruce Jenner way, just... there's that expectation where you walk into a room, and it's like, Is it OK to be a woman?' Or, you know, you're looking for your keys in the back of a cab, and sometimes the driver can treat you like you've had a lobotomy.

I like women. I like them so much, I think every man should own two.

I had such a lack of respect for women that I just treated them as a hobby, trying to live up to the supposed image of Jack Nicholson and all those guys who were womanizers.