Barbra Streisand Quotes

They say that when a woman wants to end a relationship, she cuts off all of her hair. I've done that twice in my marriage but am still married.

90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married.

This idea that we should be best friends with our partner of the opposite gender leads toward tremendous frustration. Did you ever notice that while men often refer to their wives as best friends, women usually refer to another woman in that way?

Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.

The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That's what I learned about male-female relationships.

The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

Research indicates that most women want their man to earn more than they do.

If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead.

I think I tried to control situations within my first marriage and I wasn't the easiest person to live with.

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.

We teenage girls are faced with a quandary: we know what we want but are forced to wait for our male counterparts to grow up. We are ready for intense and meaningful relationships, but research indicates that males will not reach maturity until their mid-20s.

I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.

Unfortunately, some women want to remake their husbands after their own design.

The difference between men and women seems to be this: I can argue with my promoter downstairs, accuse him of ripping me off, and 20 minutes later we'll be playing golf together. With a lady, the same argument can go on for, like, years.

The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he's asleep.

I think most couples drift apart because of comparisons. Unfortunately, in our society a perfect match is when the man is more successful than the woman.

I've thought long and hard about this, and I think a lot of the dysfunction around dating has to do with men having the control.

Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.

I am a little old fashioned. I believe that in a relationship a man and a woman are never equal.

A young lady had only one complaint about her good husband: "My husband always praises me to other people," she said, "Often I hear from friends the wonderful things he has said about me. But I miss something, because he never gets around to saying these some things to me, to my face."