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Quotes About Manipulation

Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.
~ Ian Fleming
You have to go back to the Children's Crusade in 1212 AD to find as unfortunate and fatuous an attempt at manipulated hysteria as the Women's Liberation Movement.
~ Helen Lawrenson
She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.
~ J. Courtney Sullivan
I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
~ Elizabeth Peters
A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.
~ Margaret Atwood
Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.
~ Booth Tarkington, Alice Adams
When you wish to subjugate a people, you have to convince them of their own inherent weakness.
~ Frederick Lenz
What women have done is developed a survival mechanism, and it's a fascinating one and it's been effective and justified, in my opinion. That is the ability to manipulate men sexually.
~ Frederick Lenz
Today for the first time, at least in this country, you don't have to use those powers to survive. Our societal structure now provides the possibility to survive without using sexual manipulation.
~ Frederick Lenz
There is no fouler fiend than a woman when her mind is bent to evil.
~ Homer
Men in your position have women offering themselves in the hopes that they will get somewhere professionally, or socially.
~ James Franco
Romantic love was invented to manipulate women
~ Jenny Holzer
Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.
~ John Lyly
One can't help but marvel at the variety of ways that women had devised to make us look like flaming idiots.
~ Lisa Kleypas
An artful or false woman shall set thy pillow with thorns.
~ Martin Farquhar Tupper
I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.
~ Ovid
Women can always be caught; that's the first rule of the game.
~ Ovid
The ability to have our own way, and at the same time convince others they are having their own way, is a rare thing among men. Among women it is as common as eyebrows.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
It's easy to make me laugh, you can make me laugh, anyone can make me laugh, but that certainly does not mean you can make me do anything.
~ C. JoyBell C.
How do you circumvent a mind bent upon lying to get away from the truth?
~ Noorilhuda, Catharsis
She wants to drive me crazy so that I'll want her even more. She's teasing me. That's what women do. You ever heard of a man doing this? Course not.
~ Jack Dancer, Detour Paris
Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation.
~ Tiffany Madison
You don't have to beat a woman if you can make her feel guilty.
~ Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
There is a sneakiness about girls that they keep hid under sweetness and pouting and crying.
~ Michael Lee West, Crazy Ladies