Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it's true. I am a feminist to a point. But I'm not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men.

I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word 'feminism' because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood.

A lot of people who have come up to me at restaurants - men - and have said, 'I want to shake your hand, because I have daughters'.

High respect goes out to our mothers, our single mothers. This is why today the real community uplifts femininity and holds womanhood above, not equal to, masculinity.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

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.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

A lot of the time, the way it's portrayed is that I only see women in a sexual way. But I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.

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

I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.

A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.'

The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.

I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men.