Samantha Fox Quotes

Being a sex symbol had its advantages. You got to meet a lot of interesting people, and men especially. It was a man's world in those days, and I had a lot of luck with men.

I do believe that men can be emasculated by successful women. I don't think I'm emasculating. But I have seen the dynamic with men who either don't make money or make less money. It's just not good for them.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

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.

It is a certain type of guy who's OK with having a girlfriend who is better at football than him. It is actually problematic. Some guys really can't cope with it.

Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.

Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.

Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.

Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion.

While Muslim men describe themselves as insecure in their harems, real or imagined, Westerners describe themselves as self-assured heroes with no fears of women. The tragic dimension so present in Muslim harems - fear of women and male self-doubt - is missing in the Western harem.

It's really hard for a lot of men to have the woman accomplishing more than them.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

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.

I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.

Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.

I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman, you're not in a position to behave as badly, because you don't have the economic power.

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

I think being ambitious, successful, powerful, making a lot of money - I don't care what color you are as a woman; it's difficult to find a mate. I think the natural order is that men want to be providers.

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

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