Whitney Wolfe Herd Quotes

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.

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

There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.

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

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

Men are always like, 'You're so intimidating.' I don't find myself to be. But whatever - I'm not going to try to be less intimidating. It's just a matter of finding a guy who's able to deal with it.

I have so many girlfriends who are powerhouses: They have big careers, are fearless in traveling in third-world countries or a launching non-profit. But they won't text a guy for fear of being perceived as desperate. That is broken.

All my close friends are normal dudes and then I will hang out with some girl who is a musician and everyone thinks that's what it's all about.

I personally can tell you that all my girlfriends - and many women I've spoken to - have this fear of being perceived as desperate or forward when they want to approach a man. It was always, 'He must text you first' - but why?

Men such as President Bill Clinton don't have trouble showing a warmth which works for him, but women in power seem hesitant to use their feminine charm in a man's world out of concern for appearing lightweight, manipulative, or needing to use it to make up for something that is lacking.

Even the most powerful women I know go out of their way to say that they're not really interested in power. Imagine a man saying that.

I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.

French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.

At the end of the day, no one asks a woman, 'Do you need a neck rub? Do you need a drink, honey?'

When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.

Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men. But where I draw the line, what I absolutely won't do, is the lady who plays bridge in the afternoon!

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

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

I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose.