“'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.”
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“The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.”
“I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.”
“I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.”
“If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?”
“There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.”
“To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.”
“I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.”
“Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.”
“I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.”
“Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.”
“To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.”
“Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love.”
“I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.”
“Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.”
“Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.”
“I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.”
“Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist.”
“There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.”
“I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.”
“There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.”
“In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.”
“Women are the real architects of society.”
“To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.”