John Vanbrugh Quotes

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.

When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.

Women don't realize how powerful they are.

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.

Just in the real world I think women are the ones that have all the power anyway.

Men control the world, but women control the men.

If women only knew the extent of their power!

You know, [women] do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women arethe reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal.

A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.

Lancelot: Morgaine, Morgaine - kinswoman, I have never seen you weep. Morgaine: Are you like so many men, afraid of a woman's tears? (...) Lancelot: No (...) it makes them seem so much more real, so much more vulnerable - women who never weep frighten me, because I know they are stronger than I, and I am always a little afraid of what they will do.

We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.

There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.

Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.

In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.

Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights.

Men find powerful women so threatening, and finding a partner was starting to look laughable, because I would be really attracted to guys and they would just be so threatened and I didn't like feeling threatening, I didn't want to feel threatened, I didn't want to feel like I was towering over anybody.

Women give us solace, but if it were not for women we should never need solace.

...gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.

What intrigues me is the difference in how women experience power, and how men do.

A lot of times females are in charge because they kind of have the pussy power. If they say, "I'm you're prostitute," then they mean, "I'm the power."

Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.