Katherine Anne Porter Quotes

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

We were raised to pursue women... Most of the guys I know enjoy the pursuit. But that doesn't mean women should be wallflowers.

All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.

I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!

Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.

I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could... That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.

When you really look back and take the wider perspective, it makes total sense that if the status quo is to remain the way it is, women will not be lauded and applauded for bonding with and helping each other, because it would destroy the world order if women organized; it would topple the whole thing. And so, it makes perfect sense to me that the current order of things would encourage the cat fights and encourage the comparisons and encourage the girl-on-girl hate that you see just being promoted everywhere.

Thanks to feminism, women can now acquire status in two ways: through marriage or their own achievements. Cure cancer or marry the man who does, either way society will applaud. Unless he marries into the British royal family, it doesn't work that way for men. Wives shed no glory on their husbands. Having tea with Nancy Reagan is an honor; having tea with Denis Thatcher is a joke.

I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man.

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

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.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

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

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.

Men can't bear to see women cry.

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

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

The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.

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.

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

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

I was always watching the boys and how they interacted. It comes with being a feminist, just somebody who thinks a lot about gender and how it plays out in society.

I actually think women are stronger and more capable than men, that men are actually dancing in the palms of women, who are running the show.