Joyce Brothers Quotes

First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.

I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

In the end there is nothing more unattractive to men than radical feminism.

I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.

It's difficult for me to work with women, because I find that direct references are made back to me too fast. Working with men, it gives it a little distance.

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

Women and men just aren't that different. Oh, we're different in some intriguing ways, and it can be fun to band together for all-gal or all-guy projects. But when it comes to the tragic mess Christ came to heal, we're pretty much the same.

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.

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

Woman is also the element of conflict.

Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

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 where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

There are certain things women are better at than men.

I think human beings have a really broad spectrum of traits, and I almost feel implicated when we say, 'Men are like this, women are like this.' Nobody was telling me, 'Don't get dirty, don't play in the mud, girls don't do that.'