Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Quotes

War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of violence.

I grew up with brothers, so I very easily get along with men.

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

Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.

A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been 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.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

If I look at history, it seems that most wars and most cruel things have been done by men and not by women.

It's really hard for a lot of men to have the woman accomplishing more than them.

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

It is a certain type of guy who's OK with having a girlfriend who is better at football than him. It is actually problematic. Some guys really can't cope with it.

I don't think anything of Laura Frank. You heard me - Laura Frank. Not Lawrence. Laura... It's not that I blame him, I just wish he'd go to a manly tactic and just fight me. Don't whine. When he whines, that's when I change his name of Lawrence Frank.

I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life. I've spent a life loving women, and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.

I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either. I had a rivalry with Mac, Lendl, Borg. Everybody knew there was tension between us, on court and off. That's what's really ingrained in my mind: 'This is real. This isn't a soft rivalry.' There were no hugs and kisses.

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.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.

Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.

Men may be rivals, opponents in their fortunes, and yet be friends in their hearts and fair towards each other's worth; but woman, the instant she is rivaled, becomes unjust.

Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys.

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.

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

The problem is that, partly because we are women, a large measure of our happiness depends on our relationships - including, unavoidably, our relationships with men.

This is the problem today. Men and women have switched places. The woman now acts more like the man.