John Updike Quotes

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

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

Strong women only marry weak men.

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

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.

Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.

I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.

All men hate the nagging.

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 will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

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.

It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

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.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

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

Women blame men for their own singlehood.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

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

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

I am tired of angry feminists. I like my women happy, gregarious... and bathed.