I never expected to get the Tom Jones treatment and it amazes me that I do. Strangely it's women who throw their underwear at me when I'm performing live. My male fans tend to be quite shy. My female fans are wild. I never know what to do with all the lingerie that lands at my feet. Maybe I should open a shop.

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.

Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing primal anxiety that often afflicts women.

The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.

Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

Middle-aged women have greater stability they are more loyal and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

When the British came to Ibo land for instance at the beginning of the 20th century and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places and set up their administrations the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

With women I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well at least for a time otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels.

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

I've seen women who don't have great relationships with their dads and it all comes down to this: You have to tell girls you love them every day.

I support women men anybody who is in a place that's not their strongest and who is ready to push forward.

Men and women should stay apart till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

One of my theories is that men love with their eyes women love with their ears.

I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don't really care that much about women's clothes. If they like a girl chances are they'll like her clothes.

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?

I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.

Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.

The true republic: men their rights and nothing more women their rights and nothing less.