Quotes About Perspective

I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.

Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.

It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.

The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter.

I fear only that which I love, says man, according to Montaigne. Woman replies: I love only that which I fear.

I have really good female friends. I've never bought the whole men-and-women-can't-be-friends thing. I think that's sort of nonsense.

The only bitterness I had is: Where is the conversation on gender? That's been going on since there have been men and women, and still we're not hearing about what they're going through.

Charity always feels better to the donor than to the recipient.

Women understand that men must often be kept from soiling themselves with the dirty little details of life in order to accomplish the big shinny jobs unimpeded.

As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.

Women bond differently, and I dont think men understand that.

I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.

[The Women's Room] is one of those pieces of fiction that reveals itself in a different way every time. It's incredible.

There's a book called The Women's Room by Marilyn French that was a really big part of my personal feminist awakening growing up that I read.

Men may be from Mars and women from Venus, but I'm from the Jersey Shore.

Many entire nations are marginalised by the more powerful nations. That is causing imbalance, violence and terror. Women must do their best to introduce another perspective.

If you're a smart guy, you should really try to find out what women are thinking. I mean, we are 51 percent of the population.

Our society really needs to take a better look at what we're selling, because I think women being empowered will be as beneficial to men as it is to us.

I don't mind walking. I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much--so many rare little glimpses of life; and we women learn so little of life on the whole.

On the whole, most biographies about literary women tend to diagnose them.

Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto a treadmill and never got off.

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

I've liked women but I've never felt I wanted to give up my life completely. I've never wanted to go to bed with anybody.

If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.