Russell Lynes Quotes

The storm and stress period of women and the new social and psychological formations thereby entailed must indeed extend far into the twentieth century. This period of conflict will cease only when woman within and out of marriage shall have received legal equality with man.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

I'm not big on women looking naive.

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.

What does it mean to a successful woman today? Does it mean you have to be a mother? If you are a mother, does it mean you have to be a mother with a husband? If you don't have a husband, what is the role that the man plays? I think there are a lot of confusing things that we're all really still sorting out.

Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

I've always felt very sympathetic from the first days of writing about women that, whatever the woman, whether she is trying to be a woman in the conventional sense or breaking the boundaries, those struggles are quite difficult.

The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.

If you don't have a child, you're not a real woman. I know the ERA people will kill me for saying that.

I've heard people say that 'The Blair Witch Project' is a feminist movie because there's a woman in charge and I've heard it called a completely anti-feminist movie because this woman screws everything up. Who cares really? It's just a movie.

There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel nervous, with weak clinging vines. And I am very much of the latter category.

If I were as much of a man as my woman, I'd be my wife.

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of marriage, it was defined as between one man and one woman. It was anti-polygamy, in effect saying no man can hoard his women.

Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

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