Kimberley Nixon Quotes

It's nice to be with a male energy as opposed to a female energy. It's very different.

As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.

Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have had to devote themselves to death; and that makes a vital difference in male and female religion. Women have been forced to fear whilst men have been forced to dare: the heroism of a woman is to nurse and protect life, and of a man to destroy it and court death.

Being the only female in what was basically a boys’ club must have been difficult for her. Miraculously, she didn’t compensate by becoming hard or quarrelsome. She was still a girl, a slight lovely girl who lay in bed and ate chocolates, a girl whose hair smelled like hyacinth and whose scarves fluttered jauntily in the breeze. But strange and marvelous as she was, a wisp of silk in a forest of black wool, she was not the fragile creature one would have her seem.

There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.

I understand men much better than most women I know.

I've always got on with lads, more than I have with girls.

I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy.

There is a fundamental difference between men and women - women need romance, men need intrigue.

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

Men are awesome, but they're pretty easy to figure out; women are way more complicated, and way more interesting.

I love female company. I love men, but women are different.

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

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

I find men odd. I don't really understand men. I kind of feel like I understand women better than I do men, really.

My preference for female company is based for the most part on the fact that women are more self-aware than men, in my experience.

I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated

A woman will forget that a man is male, if they are good enough friends, but men rarely forget that a woman is feminine.

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

a man is no example for a woman. It’s a different thing.

The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.