Barbara Cartland Quotes

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.

No one knows what women want!

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.

That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.

Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

You know, I had no trouble with the girls.

I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.

I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.

Writers and readers are still trying to work out unresolved problems between men and women, and that is why millions of women around the world are hooked on romantic fiction. So am I.

It takes me so long to get tired of a man. It's women that are the problem. Don't get me wrong. I think men have their problems just as much as women.

Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.

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

I've noticed over my 22 years of living that, yes, women can be difficult, and I call myself a ladies' man, thinking I have them figured out. But as men, we will never understand women.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

People say I think too much about women, yet, after all what is there more important to think about?

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

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

The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men.

Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.

I love women. My life revolves around them.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.