Quotes About Perception

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

Women are necessary evils.

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

If you were on a sinking ship and yelled, Women and children first! how much feminist opposition do you think you'd get? . . . Women want to fight men for equal pay, but how often do they fight a man for the check? . . . And any man who questions a woman's physical capabilities gets branded a sexist -- but who do they call when there's a spider to be killed? Convenient feminism -- crackpot theory or dangerous lunacy?

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

Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what was in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected. Being feminine meant being a cheerleader, not being an athlete. The image of women is changing now. You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't mean you're not a woman.

Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women.

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.

Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded.

Supposing that Truth is a woman ---well, now, is there not some foundation for suspecting that all philosophers, insofar as they were dogmatists, have not known how to handle women?

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.