Erica Jong Quotes

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

Men can't bear to see women cry.

It's easy for guys to listen to another guy for support, but if it's a female, they seem to shy away from it, like they don't want to be a sucker, you know what I'm saying? So we kind of got to go harder.

Women need attention therefore women will complain, develop hatred for men and say that you're the one to blame.

For the record, this isn’t a male/female thing. It’s a people thing. You talk about men being cold...you should see women from my standpoint. We’re talking the Arctic tundra would be warmer. Believe me, you don’t want to know my vantage point on your gender. As a man, if I grabbed your breasts, I’d be arrested. Any idea how many women have felt free to grab my crotch at will? (Acheron)

Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.

From a male perspective, you don't think about how much outward pressure and importance you put on how women look.

Women are the harshest critics of other women.

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.

The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.

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

I think women get labeled a lot as being crazy. But I think men make us crazy.

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

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.

Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.

I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy.

When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.

Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy.

Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one.

I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.

Girls have a tendency to take responsibility for romantic misinterpretations, when often it's men whose perfectly honed emotional inscrutability makes life more complicated than it should be.