Aristophanes Quotes

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

We try to do too many things that used to be in the men's domain, and we try to do them like men's. I'm a prude - I guess you can tell that - but I think, 'Why would you do that?'

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.

I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it's true. I am a feminist to a point. But I'm not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men.

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.

The problem is that, partly because we are women, a large measure of our happiness depends on our relationships - including, unavoidably, our relationships with men.

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

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

Men that aren't threatened by opinionated, faintly aggressive women are in a minority.

I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.

I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.

Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.

There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.

People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can't; it's impossible.

I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy.

All women like to look up to their men.

Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.

Women are a strange thing. Like watches, houses, and cars, you really only need one at any moment in your life (French men disagree).