Hallie Ephron Quotes

I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don't really care that much about women's clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they'll like her clothes.

If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writer's description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. They're looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Is it just me, or is the world full of beautiful women?

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

Old women should not seek to be perfumed.

Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man..

There's almost a Rorschach-test quality about writing about 'Playboy'. What comes out in the press is not so much about me as it is about society.

Don't get me wrong - I like to look at the ladies as much as the next guy. But what in the hell do they do they have to do with wrestling? Nothing.

What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is unconditional love, the ability to finish my sentences for me when I am sobbing, a complete and total willingness to pour their hearts out to me, and the ability to tell me why the meat thermometer isn't supposed to touch the bone.

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.

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.

I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.

Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.

You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.

There is a sense that women are more anchored than men in our society.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

The gentle and insinuating manners of the female sex tend to soften the roughness of the other sex.

When we get married or interviewed for a job or play professional sports or run for president of the United States, we encounter a whole set of standards and expectations. We can be shamed for an outfit that's too slutty, too dowdy, too pricey--take your pick. That's the burden women carry into the fitting room.

Some forms of veil are justified by the idea that you're not tempting men. Well how about men just behaving and keeping their hands to yourselves? How about, instead of criticizing how I dress, respecting me and my right to the public space?

Women are just as violently minded as men are, but with men, it's taken for granted.

Most men would love to be stared at by women. Don't doubt me on this. And my guess is that most women are actually intrigued by it and have developed techniques and skills for dealing with it. Don't doubt me.

Men project their fantasies onto me; they live them through who they think I am.

I think it's fair to say that women have a different level of intuitiveness that allows them to perhaps handle situations a little bit different.