James Joyce Quotes

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

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

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.

It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys.

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

Man was created to frame the woman.

Men never get free from morality, only women.

We're not accustomed to giving women the space to express the full range of emotions and flaws that men are permitted. Anger and aggressiveness aren't part of the scale of what is acceptable behavior in women, whereas men - in reality and in fiction - are allowed a much fuller range of emotion.

It's absolutely delightful to get dressed up for a lovely evening, but when it goes from being a fun thing to being a chore, and a chore that men don't have to do, then we need to think about it differently.

My mother sang. But back in the day, it was looked down upon if the lady of the house wanted to sing in public. So, she couldn't pursue her musical aspirations.

I always felt that, for me, as a woman, I always had to wait around. In all other arenas, I was ambitious and a go-getter, but when it came to dating, I wasn't supposed to go after what I wanted.

Understand that you are going to have to address several things navigating through the world as it pertains to men who have been conditioned to think that they are superior, which I don't believe, in the natural world, that is the case.

I think I've learned quite a bit about the battle of the sexes or, at least, how to keep the status quo a little bit more.

A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

Somehow we've even developed the notion that a woman who seeks to meet her husband's needs is subservient (but a husband who fails to meet his wife's needs is a pig.)

It's always fascinating to me, one, when they like to throw President [Bill] Clinton's behavior in Secretary [Hillary] Clinton's face, I've never seen anything like it before in my entire career, of watching a woman have to defend the behavior of her husband, because she chose to make her marriage work. That is just outrageous.