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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

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

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.