Amy Bloom Quotes

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

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.

Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

Many men admire strong women, but they don't love them.

I actually think women are stronger and more capable than men, that men are actually dancing in the palms of women, who are running the show.

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.

There's this sort of male energy that we have that can seem very destructive. But it doesn't have to be. It actually can be a very positive force.

The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.

We were raised to pursue women... Most of the guys I know enjoy the pursuit. But that doesn't mean women should be wallflowers.

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue.

It seems a lot of straight men need a word coach or a lawyer when it comes to discussing 'Sex and the City.'

I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.

The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men.

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.

All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious.

If you're in a heterosexual relationship and you're a female, you win.

There is a sense that women are more anchored than men in our society.

We, all of us, are awakening to the reality that how men have behaved toward women for eons is not OK. The rules are changing invisibly underneath our feet. I am playing catch up. Maybe we all are.

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.

If the ascent of women has been much exaggerated, so has the descent of men.