Gertrude Atherton Quotes

I just don't get boys; I don't really get men.

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.

The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.

It's something that I feel I know about, relationships between men and women. I like to write from the woman's point of view now and again, to get inside her head, to feel what she's feeling.

I mean a song that's specifically for the girls. It's saying you know we talk about them night and day, we're constantly pondering on men and what they've done good and what they've done bad and all these things in our lives.

I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around boys and men my whole life. I get them. I get men.

One of the things that struck me about the 1870s, which we still haven't nearly addressed, is what to do about the male-female divide. One of the forbidden topics is when men own up to the omnivorousness of their sexual interest and how to square that with being in love with an individual woman.

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.

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

If men want sex they'll find it.

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

What's so interesting about 'Point Break' to me is that it's a study of testosterone and adrenaline by a woman. That's why it's little more interesting than it should be.

I used to think men were these idiots who just yelled at you on the street. But, part of my maturing was realizing that not all men are evil or monsters.

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

There are those women who degrade the name of women, and there are men who degrade the name of women. But for the most part, we can't live without them.

Well let me just say, for a man, a lot of how your approach and you're dealing with women comes from your mom.

Men need to be with women otherwise I don't think they really know how to behave. They'll just stare at me and it's awkward, so I scramble around in my mind to say the rudest things I can think of just to get something out of them.

Working with guys allowed me to at least understand guys in a way that I could then say to women, 'Look, here's what I've learned about men.'

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.

As far as I'm concerned, men like you were put on this world to entertain women like me.

Men are like parking spots: sometimes I drive my car into them

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