Her Quotes

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don't have anything. It's hard. I love her too much. That's what counts.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.