Julian Ovenden Quotes

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

I think I've learned quite a bit about the battle of the sexes or, at least, how to keep the status quo a little bit more.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

I didn't want to be good for a girl: I wanted to be as good, if not better than, all the guys.

Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.

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

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

Woman is also the element of conflict.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

Women play into each other's weaknesses.

Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.

Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing.

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

I love if someone invites me to a restaurant, so I don't know if that's a feminist.

To be political means to speak out, to risk being called 'catty', or worse. I don't hear men worrying about whether they may be right or not. They enjoy the fight, whether it is with words or fists. Women still tend to shy away from controversy, to be uncomfortable with competition.

Man was created to frame the woman.

Women know how to scare other women.

I love women but am aware we're dangerous and deeply competitive, although I gave up being competitive long ago.

I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the idea of women of my own generation who were successful, intelligent, coming to power and suddenly in the public arena. I started to think about what they are allowed and what they are not allowed.

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.

In America, more than anywhere else in the world, care has been taken constantly to trace clearly distinct spheres of action for the two sexes, and both are required to keep in step, but along paths that are never the same.

The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.

Men generally do not see women as competition.