Anna Quindlen Quotes

Relationships between men and women have become much more complicated.

I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.

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.

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

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.

I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.

As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day.

In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn't expect myself to ever disobey or disappoint my father by setting my own goals and taking charge of my future.

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

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

I have friends who have daughters and there's times I think I'm glad I have boys instead of girls.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

None of my sisters are in the movies, nor are my nieces going to be. That's how Dutt 'sahab,' my dad, brought up the girls in the family, and I am just carrying his thought forward.

But, the truth is and we can argue about whether this is right or not as long as we want to, but the fact is that women really do spend more time with their families. Until I can find a man who can tell me the dates of all of his nieces and nephews birthdays and get presents out to them regularly, I'm going to stay by that statement.

Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.

You don't really see too many straight friendships between men and women on 'Mad Men.'

I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.

Women always go through the door first. Even ardent feminists would admit it's nice. It's not an acknowledgment of women as the weaker sex; it's perhaps an acknowledgment of women as the stronger sex.

I grew up with all boys in my family, where there was no place for girlie stuff. But it's amazing to walk into my house now. Everything is pink!

There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.

A woman simply is, but a man must become.

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

There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.