Bette Davis Quotes

I noticed in the past, a lot of guys who like strong women, they really freak out if you're not strong 24/7. Or they complain about you being strong, then the moment you're not strong, they're like, 'Oh, no, no, no.'

Women cannot complain about men until they start gettting better taste in them.

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

All men hate the nagging.

Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.

What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.

I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men.

There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel nervous, with weak clinging vines. And I am very much of the latter category.

It seems like women don't want men to be men anymore. They want men to be women. But they really don't want what they say they want. It's very weird.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.

As a woman who has some sort of power, you have to have a man that can take that. It's hard to find those men.

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

Why can't ladies like nice guys?

For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman's intelligence was a man's deception.

There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.

When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.

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 never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.

Women blame men for their own singlehood.

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

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.