Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

One of the main problems of our time is that men are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called feminine, and women are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.

Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

People assume that I'm girly. But people who know me say I'm more boyish.

I had always been a tomboy - I still am, at heart.

I have a lot of characteristics that would normally be present in a guy and then less that would be present in a woman.

I hate to say there are female and male ways of dealing with power, because I think each of us has a male and a female part. But based on my own experience, women will tend to be inclusive, to reach out more, to care a little more.

Little girls as children, I think, are expected to behave better. If a boy's naughty at school, he's a little bit cheeky and mischievous. If a girl's naughty, she's trouble.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.

I think when I was quite younger, I was always quite a tomboy.

I grew up being a bit of a tomboy, a big-time tomboy.

I was a tomboy.

Why don't men like to stop and ask directions? This question, which I first addressed in my 1990 book 'You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation', garnered perhaps the most attention of any issue or insight in that book.

I was kind of a tomboy.

I do tons of feminine things.

I think anyone who has a boy would tell you that they do the sort of things that make you look at them and ask why they would do that. 'Oh right, because you're a boy.'

Believe it or not, I am a tomboy.

I was a bit of a tomboy.

At heart I am a tomboy.

I feel that women and men should free themselves up. It took me a while to get over my dysphoria about shopping in the men's section, trying on men's clothes, but when I was thinking about my life and the kind of woman I wanted to be, it was never just this by-the-book feminine thing.

I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.

Patriarchy values the hard over the soft; the tough over the tender; punishment, vengeance, and vindictiveness over compassion, negotiation, and reconciliation. The 'hard' qualities are linked to power, success, and masculinity - and exalted. The 'soft' qualities are identified with weakness, powerlessness, and femininity - and denigrated.

I think there's a whole bunch of things that go along with being a girl. You're not supposed to have opinions or be tough or strong. You're supposed to be soft and vulnerable, and I find those qualities important in both men and women.