Carolyn Porco Quotes

Maybe I was just born to argue with men.

The difference between men and women seems to be this: I can argue with my promoter downstairs, accuse him of ripping me off, and 20 minutes later we'll be playing golf together. With a lady, the same argument can go on for, like, years.

Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.

I'm too much of a broad; I make men shake in their boots because I have a male dominance in my make-up that makes them feel emasculated.

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

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.

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.

Where there seems to be a difference between guys being nuts and women being nuts is that guys are much more open in calling each other on stuff; lots of insults and dirty names. Whereas women will talk frankly and honesty, but there also seems to be more passive aggressiveness.

What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.

You can't leave out half the world's experience and expect to address all the problems. Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.

Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.

Men that aren't threatened by opinionated, faintly aggressive women are in a minority.

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.

It's something that I feel I know about, relationships between men and women. I like to write from the woman's point of view now and again, to get inside her head, to feel what she's feeling.

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

I have really good female friends. I've never bought the whole men-and-women-can't-be-friends thing. I think that's sort of nonsense.

A lot of women - not all of them, a lot of them - feel insecure about men being men.

Well, because I'm naturally a tomboy, when I have sleepovers with girls, they end up going home and crying.