Sigmund Freud Quotes

We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'

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

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost.

I think feeling responsible for stuff that goes wrong is an inherent part of being female.

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.

As young parents of three girls, living in California during the late Sixties and early Seventies, Meredith and I couldn't help but be aware of the rising level of dialogue, debate, commentary, and proclamations about the place of women in society and about how to raise females in light of this raised consciousness.

I hate girls who complain, 'Oh, guys are looking at me!' But I love it when guys check me out. It just feels great.

No one knows what women want!

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home; that a woman should not aspire to achieve more than her male counterparts and, particularly, not more than her husband.

A woman is a woman!

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

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

Life's tricky for women because they have to make more choices than men. And yes, choice is good, but boy, you better be an expert choice-maker.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

There's nothing wrong at all with women wanting to be women.

Femininity in and of itself - and the feminine - can be not only privileged, but honored or worshipped.

What does it mean, being a woman?

I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.

I love women, and I just think that they're great. I mean, yes, they can be a little nutty sometimes, but they're great.

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.