Jacqueline Bisset Quotes

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.

Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.

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.

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

The real victims of men are other men.

Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy.

I think there are a lot of men who feel they're being emasculated by having the woman be in charge; I've never had that problem.

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

The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.

If men want sex they'll find it.

I never call them 'guys;' I always call them 'boys.' Maybe it's a superiority complex - my needing to keep them down.

Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.

Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion.

Among the emasculation men fear most is subordination to women.

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.

I don't think men were meant to be interviewed.

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

I do believe that men can be emasculated by successful women. I don't think I'm emasculating. But I have seen the dynamic with men who either don't make money or make less money. It's just not good for them.

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.

Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

I actually don't think there is machismo in America, unless it's the cowboy type - the silent, smoking brooder.

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.