The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
—Rebecca West
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
—Groucho Marx
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
—W. Somerset Maugham
There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.
—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.
—Elayne Boosler
How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behavior and the sphere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine.
—George Bernard Shaw
Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
—H. L. Mencken
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
—James Thurber
I hate women because they always know where things are.
—Jilly Cooper
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
—Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
—Lawana Blackwell
For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.
—Margaret Fuller
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?
—Plato
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
—Plutarch