Minna Antrim Quotes

Strong women only marry weak men.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

Women rule our lives, don't they?

I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.

When I was a teenager, I used to love the Bronte books, 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Jane Eyre.' In those books, the women do usually manage to heal the men, but in life, I've found it's often the woman gets wounded. Instead of healing a man, she gets affected by his cruelty.

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

Women play into each other's weaknesses.

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

It's hard for women who make a lot of money and make decisions all day long, then they have to come home and be 'Stupid Sally.' Men need respect, and they need to know that they can lead in the relationship, so even if they don't make the most money they need to be able to call the shots.

The woman is always the boss.

In marriage, a woman becomes the weaker sex, even if her husband doesn't want her to be. This happens because of the way society has built the institution.

Why do men feel threatened by women?

And this, incidentally, is my thumbnail sketch of American marriage: A woman sees a man; she likes him. Now she jumps on this thing and rides it to some kind of standstill. Then she changes it and trains it, and to the exact degree that she's able to do this, she disrespects him.

More women are becoming the men they wanted to marry, but too few men are becoming the women they wanted to marry. That leaves most women with two jobs, one outside the home and one in it.

Women have choices, and men have responsibilities.

When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.

It's difficult for me to trust a woman. Men are attracted to beautiful women. Women are attracted to men who offer security - financial security. And if you have money and you're famous, women find that sexy.

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

I noticed in the past, a lot of guys who like strong women, they really freak out if you're not strong 24/7. Or they complain about you being strong, then the moment you're not strong, they're like, 'Oh, no, no, no.'

I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.