Courtney Love Quotes

Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.

When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.

My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he became the filter through which I saw myself, the possibilities for my life, the world and all men. He was a conflicted and dark filter.

Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.

Women cannot complain about men until they start gettting better taste in them.

I have never met a feminist who didn't have a father.

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!

How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I'm kidding. I'm not.

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 grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.

When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity.

My mother did what many men do. She left.

All men hate the nagging.

I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.

I personally always find something really scary about watching little girls learning to manipulate their dads by baby talking. Then they grow up and use the same technique on their boyfriends or husbands. That scares me because it's just so sick on so many levels.

I'm working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive.

I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.

Well, I think it's because I'm an only daughter. I have four brothers, a bunch of guy cousins, and so it's like I was raised amongst men. So I've always gotten along really well with men.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy.

I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.

All men are difficult.

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.