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Women

People identify with me – everyone does – African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because Im ethnic. – Janice Dickinson

Men like women who write. Even though they dont say so. A writer is a foreign country. – Marguerite Duras

When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the womans part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women. – Jack Nicholson

I wouldnt want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. Im terrified that they might end up with someone like me. – Antonio Banderas

You cant be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily those two things arent ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isnt working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women. – Emma Thompson

Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, Ill show you a little man. – Julie Burchill

Women, more often than not, do things which arent remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work. – Julie Burchill

You know, when you dont go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly in the know, start whispering that youre gay. If I were gay, I wouldnt be ashamed to admit it, but Im not. – Adam Sandler

Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to commit. – Julie Burchill

If you ask men why they did a good job, theyll say, Im awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking? If you ask women why they did a good job, what theyll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard. – Sheryl Sandberg

I dont really care what people tell children – when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib wont hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful. – Julie Burchill

Feminists wish women to seem like men. Theyre not men. – Vivienne Westwood

As a kid, I grew to define what I didnt 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. – Julie Burchill

Thank God were not like America. Everyone wants to look like theyre 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women I think men revere older women. – Francesca Annis

Stress was the catch-all every pamper-pedlar I spoke to used to explain why healthy women feel the need to be regularly patted, petted and preened into a state of babyish beatification. – Julie Burchill

Make no mistake, most women are well aware that theyve never had it so good when they enter a spa or salon, it is purely a hair/nails thing, a prelude to an evening of guilt-free fun. – Julie Burchill

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And theres no doubt about that. We just dont like to think about it. Certainly the men dont like to think about it. – Maurice Sendak

No one knows men as such, any more than anyone knows women, and if they do generalise theyre probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one man, yes, or even lots of individual men. – Julie Burchill

Womens issues have always been a part of my life. – Annie Lennox

Its hard to tell how far womens individuality has come in the past twenty years. – Annie Lennox