Mae West 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.

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

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

I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.

The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.

Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's famous - in that case, men are really afraid.

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

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

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

It's difficult for me to trust a woman. Men are attracted to beautiful women. Women are attracted to men who offer security - financial security. And if you have money and you're famous, women find that sexy.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

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

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

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

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.

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

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.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

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.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

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.