Bette Davis Quotes

It's axiomatic that all husbands are impossible. But I also think it's axiomatic that women are slightly impossible.

No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.

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

Men are pigs. I really have every sympathy for women that they actually have to choose one of these arrogant, stupid morons to settle down with and marry.

... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring, gracious, emotional, intuitive, attractive consumer of goods.

Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.

The students were staring at her in the manner of those who have heard of the species 'female' but have never expected to get this close to one.

I think women are really vicious in the work place, they're really jealous, really competitive. Women are emotional, they cry in toilets. The sisterhood only extends as far as the kitchen door. Men talk in logic and rational terms, they don't squark and make a noise.

The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs that were too fiddly for the boys.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didn't get you very far, because there weren't too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldn't be both.

If I want to dislike women, I should be allowed to. As it happens, I love them. Women to me are privately worshipped and publicly disdained.

A lot of times I can across as too masculine to men, and they couldn't handle me, they stayed away.

I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

Trying to understand women is a tall order period.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home; that a woman should not aspire to achieve more than her male counterparts and, particularly, not more than her husband.

People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

It seems a lot of straight men need a word coach or a lawyer when it comes to discussing 'Sex and the City.'

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?