Danielle Steel Quotes

As I looked more carefully at the listening matrix I saw that during the past twenty years we had taken a magnifying glass to the first of these four quadrants, the female experience of powerlessness. I saw I was subconsciously making a false assumption: The more deeply I understood women's experience of powerlessness, the more I assumed men had the power women did not have. In fact, what I was understanding was the female experience of male power.

Women are real. Our reality covers the whole human megillah, from feeble to fierce, from bad to good, from endangered to dangerous. We don't just deserve power, we have it. And power in this and every other society is not just the capacity to benefit those around us.

I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.

Historically, it appears that society has capitalized on what is at most a degree of difference between the sexes in order to institutionalize the polarization of aggression.

You know what the problem is? You can't put a woman into a man's role. A women's journey in life, I'm not speaking disrespectfully of women and their roles in life, but a woman's journey in life is very different from a man's. That doesn't mean a woman can't do a man's job, but it doesn't mean that a woman should do a man's job the way a man handles it. The things that men question themselves about in life are quite different from the things women question themselves about.

Men will not change as long as women 'marry up.' Men won't change until we have a perspective on how powerless power makes us. A woman cannot help a man change until she has a perspective on how powerless power makes men.

Men are good but women are magic.

I don't think we are the same, women and men. We're different. But I don't think we are less than men. There are more women than men in the world - ask any single woman! So, it is shocking that men are in more positions of power.

Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.

There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic.

Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.

There is a fundamental difference between men and women - women need romance, men need intrigue.

I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.

Men and women's needs and desires overlap but go in different directions as well.

I don't think anyone disagrees that male and female brains work differently.

The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

There are things you maybe could get by a male drill instructor that a female instructor absolutely is never going to let you get away with. Women are harder on women.