Stephanie Allain Quotes

I do believe that men can be emasculated by successful women. I don't think I'm emasculating. But I have seen the dynamic with men who either don't make money or make less money. It's just not good for them.

There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.

Research indicates that most women want their man to earn more than they do.

Strong women only marry weak men.

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.

All women like to look up to their men.

Marriage exists as an institution of exploitation, it is not togetherness. That is why no happiness comes out of it as a flowering. It cannot. Out of the roots of exploitation how can ecstasy be born?

Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.

It's not very hip to consider the plight of single women who yearn for something so old-fashioned as men.

Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

It's difficult for me to trust a woman. Men are attracted to beautiful women. Women are attracted to men who offer security - financial security. And if you have money and you're famous, women find that sexy.

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

We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

It's a very confusing experience living as a woman in Japan. If your husband is white-collar, the wife is blue. Even if you marry a person of status, the wife inevitably remains a rung below.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.

I'm eulogised by a lot of men, but they wouldn't take me home to meet their mothers.

I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy.