10 great quotes from the battle of the sexes
Here are some of the most notable despatches from the gender war or words.
1. "I do, and I also wash and iron them."
Denis Thatcher, 1981, when asked who wore the trousers in his house
2. "The great question... which I have not been able to answer, despite
my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'"
Sigmund Freud, psychoanalyst.
3. Women's rights now! (Yes dear)
(Perhaps apocryphal) graffito
On a similar wavelength: Farrah Fawcett and Denis Thatcher
4. If it were a lady, it would get its bottom pinched (If this lady was a
car she'd run you down)
Graffito scrawled under advert for "the beautiful" Fiat 127, 1979
5. "Why can't a woman be more like a man?"
Henry Higgins, lyric from A Hymn to Him, My Fair Lady
6. "Women fail to understand how much men hate them"
Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
7. "What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's
transparency."
Author George Jean Nathan
8. "God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave
women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily
jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met."
Actress Farrah Fawcett
9. "Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing
the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its
natural size."
Novelist Virginia Woolf
10. "Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night