George Farquhar Quotes

I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed that pill so easily, although I tried.

There's always been a man telling me what to do.

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.

I know it sounds like I'm playing all these wives and girlfriends, but they're not waiting at home. I wear the pants.

Why do men feel threatened by women?

The one who decides who goes ahead has the upper hand, regardless of who gets to go. This is why many women do not feel empowered by such privileges as having doors held open for them. The advantage of going first through the door is less salient to them than the disadvantage of being granted the right to walk through a door by someone who is framed, by his magnanimous gesture, as the arbiter of the right-of-way.

My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.

Women, by nature, want to be dominated.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

Women rule our lives, don't they?

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

It's difficult for me to trust a woman. Men are attracted to beautiful women. Women are attracted to men who offer security - financial security. And if you have money and you're famous, women find that sexy.

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.

To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

How does a woman in authority convey that authority? Is it possible for a woman to rule without sounding shrill? Is it possible for a woman to manage without manipulating? All of these things seem to me to be very much at the fore today, and were no less the case 2,000 years ago.

It's something that I feel I know about, relationships between men and women. I like to write from the woman's point of view now and again, to get inside her head, to feel what she's feeling.