Bettina Arndt Quotes

Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.

Bettina Arndt

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• I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Think
  • Change
  • Human

• I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Women
  • Love
  • Respect

• When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Real
  • Hope

• When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • Think
  • Black

• My own personal goal is I just hope to still write songs and kind of let that sustain me as a job. If I could never have a 9-to-5 job, and making a living doing this, it'd just be incredible.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Job
  • Hope
  • Goal

• Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Acting

• I do think that having the villain be a woman is just as feminine, because we're not just saying, 'Women are wonderful and made of marshmallows,' but women can be anything. They can be amazing superheroes, or they can be dastardly villains, and everything in between.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Women
  • Amazing
  • Woman

• Women in America will have to find an answer for the pressures of work and family, but if you really care about women's issues you have to think about women in the world, especially Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

  

  Gail Collins
  • World
  • Work
  • Women

• More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Marriage
  • Bed
  • Legs

• There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Different
  • Women
  • Culture

• Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Men
  • Women
  • Responsibility

• I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Trying
  • Change
  • Grow

• By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Work
  • Women
  • Society

• There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception but a routine one; women would take it once a month to induce a period and never even know whether they had gotten pregnant.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • Women
  • Morning

• People really criticize professional athletes going into the Olympics. People don't like change. A bunch of people don't like the Olympics now because we've added skateboarding... We're modernizing the sport.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • People
  • Change
  • Professional

• If Women Have An Equal EMPLOYMENT Opportunity Commission, Why Don’t Men Have An Equal FAMILY Opportunity Commission?

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Important
  • Women

• I am particularly interested in helping to heal women who have a fistula after their pregnancies.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Helping
  • Pregnancies

• The mentality needs to be changed, and sometimes legislation needs to be improved. There is a perception that apprenticeships are for jobs with low qualifications.

  

  Alain Dehaze
  • Perception

• In my life there were a lot of situations where I could have been killed or some officer might have been killed chasing me, a lot of things could be different. Now, you know that's experience you can't buy. And it's there in my rearview mirror and I can refer to it in my writing. I have the experience to talk about things some people only imagine.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • People
  • Different
  • Writing

• Let's be honest, any show will live or die based on how good the characters are, how good the actors are, how complicated the relationships are, how grounded they are and how much heart they have.

  

  Eric Kripke
  • Heart
  • Actors
  • Characters

• Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.

  

  Bettina Arndt
  • Women
  • Hope
  • Change