Ogden Nash Quotes

We're not accustomed to giving women the space to express the full range of emotions and flaws that men are permitted. Anger and aggressiveness aren't part of the scale of what is acceptable behavior in women, whereas men - in reality and in fiction - are allowed a much fuller range of emotion.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

Many men admire strong women, but they don't love them.

A woman's desire is either terrifying, or it's ignored.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

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.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.

Boys always like to see girls kiss. I don't get it; girls don't want to see boys kiss.

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.

Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.

Men can't bear to see women cry.

I think women are sick and tired of being portrayed as victims, a lot of the time anyway, the bulk of their time on film.

Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.