Paulo Coelho Quotes

I love women in all their different incarnations. My friends are practically all women. They are much more intelligent than men.

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.

Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?

Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

There are certain things women are better at than men.

Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.

Most men somewhere in their psyche are still dragging women around by their hair. It's terrible. I have two daughters, but even before my kids were born I always thought that it was terrible.

I didn't have a father growing up, and I was raised with all women, and I didn't really understand men. I thought they were like women, right?

In the name of feminism, we denied some essential aspects of our authentic selves. While feminism should have been nothing if not a celebration of our own unique characteristics, we insisted that we had no unique characteristics... that gender differences were hogwash, and a feminine woman was nothing more than a plaything for men.

Men regarded women as a servant class in the community, and that women were going to remain in the servant class until they lifted themselves out of it.

If “all men are born free,” how is it that all women are born slaves?

You—the outside world—will be told that it is our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, and Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman.

Women and men just aren't that different. Oh, we're different in some intriguing ways, and it can be fun to band together for all-gal or all-guy projects. But when it comes to the tragic mess Christ came to heal, we're pretty much the same.

I love women. My life revolves around them.

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

Sometimes I think women are lucky because they can develop in ways men can't. The old-boy network may be oppressive to women, but it actually stunts men in terms of personal growth.