Quotes
A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.
Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it’s the other way around.
When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy.
How about this for a title: Men Are from Earth, Women Are from Earth—Just Deal with It.
p. 3
WE know, Mr. Weller—we, who are men of the world—that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.
Tongue —, well that's a wery good thing when it ain't a woman's.
Women are receiving so many conflicting messages from this society that no matter what choices we make, or more often, what roles necessity forces on us-work, family or the difficult combination of both-we all feel guilty about what we're doing. It's quite true that full-time homemakers resent the condescension in remarks like Hillary Clinton's "What did you expect me to do, stay home and bake cookies?" But this is a society in which people's worth is judged by how much money they make, and the esteem in which our society holds wives and mothers is reflected in their salaries. ("Notes from Another Country" 1992)
“I don’t believe in women’s intuition,” Sam said. “They’re just culturally conditioned to observe different patterns of action and speech, different gestures and inflections from those men observe. They’re more sensitive to certain subtleties because of this conditioning.”
p. 396
Anyway, women are about as mysterious as a tin mine. All you have to do is carry a lantern into the dark places, and you see everything. But men like to think women are the eternally mysterious. That saves men the trouble of asking questions, taking a little time and effort.
p. 398
[Wambui] believed in the power of women to influence events, especially where men had failed to act, or seemed indecisive […] Let therefore such men, she jeered, come forward, wear the women’s skirts and aprons and give up their trousers to the women.
No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
