Germaine de Staël Quotes

The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men.

I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power so far. When we do acquire power, we might turn out to have an equal impulse toward aggression.

I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

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.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

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

I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn't.

The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.

To be political means to speak out, to risk being called 'catty', or worse. I don't hear men worrying about whether they may be right or not. They enjoy the fight, whether it is with words or fists. Women still tend to shy away from controversy, to be uncomfortable with competition.

A man must know how to act in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

The gentle and insinuating manners of the female sex tend to soften the roughness of the other sex.

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.

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.

Directing is genderless. The only thing... I love men. I'm not being mean to them, but they can't hear you. I don't have a husband, and so I'm not really attuned to it, but I didn't know that they could not really hear you. Like, I'm talking, and they just walk away.

If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.

Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.