Henry Adams Quotes

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

I don't have a lot of men in my life. I'm married, but I have daughters. I'm surrounded by a lot of females in my world.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

It is better to be a male for one day than a female for ten

The gentle and insinuating manners of the female sex tend to soften the roughness of the other sex.

What difference does it make whether the women rule or the rulers are ruled by women? The result is the same.

Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion.

The nation of the West-Saxons do not allow a queen to sit beside the king, nor to be called a queen, but only the king's wife …. all the nobles of that land swore together, that they would never let any king reign over them, who should attempt to place a queen on the throne by his side.

The only power that females have is given to them by males. The only thing which females do with that power is use it against males.

Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

Every time a male coach berates his players by referring to them as “ladies” or tells them to “hike their skirts” while playing, we’re perpetuating an atmosphere where women are not men’s equals.

Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women still actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping the glittering alternative alive and available for (not-too-close) inspection.

So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.

Like most Beta Males, he didn't realize that being a good guy was not necessarily an attraction to women.

I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.

Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.

Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.

Let the men do their duty & the women will be such wonders; the female life lives from the light of the male: see a man's female dependants, you know the man.

Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.

It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.