Quotes of: Men-and-women Keyword

We were women in transition, raised in one era and coming of age in another, very different time...here we were, entering the workplace in the 1960s questioning--and often rejecting--many of the values we had been taught. We were the polite, perfecti...

The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace

The part of the tradition that I knew best was mostly written (or rewritten for children) in England and northern Europe. The principal characters were men. If the story was heroic, the hero was a white man; most dark-skinned people were inferior or ...

A Wizard of Earthsea

Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.

The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World

Women are as much politicians as men, and I hope that more and more women will enter public life through politics, as this would not only increase participation of women in public life but also have a salutary effect for the amelioration of women's s...

Preneet Kaur

Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.

John Gray

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

Doris Lessing

All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious.

Daniel Mainwaring

Men tend to be hierarchical, but women are driven to make lateral connections so they can cooperate.

Helen Fisher

Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be.

Robert Altman

I don't think a powerful man would be interesting unless he'd be nice, attractive, with or without the power. Men are interested in powerful men. Women are interested in terrific men!

Dorothy Stratten

Though women begin their lives more fulfilled than men, as they age, they gradually become less happy. Men, in contrast, get happier as they get older.

Marcus Buckingham

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

Amelia Barr

I guess there are some women who like older men, but it's a smaller group.

Michael Douglas

What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.

East of Eden

This good-fellowship—camaraderie—usually occurring through similarity of pursuits, is unfortunately seldom superadded to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labours, but in their pleasures merely.

Far from the Madding Crowd

Maslow did not make two different pyramids, one for men and one for women. He did not differentiate in identifying what men want and what women want.

Friends With Benefits: Rethinking Friendship, Dating & Violence

It Begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible.

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.

The Book of the City of Ladies

I'm a single woman of 56 and I see a lot of men my age with much younger women or women my age with much younger men. I've done both, and I still hope that when I do find someone I want to spend time with, they think I'm the hottest thing going.

Kim Cattrall

We must never lose sight of the fact that we are only as good as the men and women who follow us; alone we are no more than an individual who solely possesses a vision.

44 Days of Leadership

Some say that it is lack of imagination which makes men and women brutes. May it not be power of imagination? The interest of torturing is lessened, is almost lost, if we can not be the tortured as well as the torturer.

the Return of the Soul and Other Stories