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Women's varied views on men...

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1

Which actress said? ‘It’s not the men in my life; it’s the life in my men’.
 
Cleopatra
Germaine Greer
Mae West
Margaret Thatcher
 

2

Which leader in the developing world said? ‘My theory is that men are no more liberated than women’.
 
Benazir Bhutto
Eva Peron
Indira Gandhi
Madeleine Albright
 

3

Which leader said? ‘Women’s Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s the men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one’s likely to do anything about that.’
 
Golda Meir
Hillary Clinton
Margaret Thatcher
Nancy Astor
 

4

Which feminist author said? ‘The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough’
 
Emily Dickinson
Germaine Greer
Gertrude Stein
Virginia Woolf
 

5

Who said? ‘I want a man who’s kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?
 
Better Davis
Joan Crawford
Lana Turner
Zsa Zsa Gabor
 

6

Which British comedienne said? ‘I can eat a man, but I’m not sure of the fiber content’.
 
Jennifer Saunders
Jenny Éclair
Jo Brand
Ruby Wax
 

7

Which Oscar winning actress said? ‘Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do’.
 
Elizabeth Taylor
Grace Kelly
Katharine Hepburn
Natalie Wood
 

8

Which wife of a Pop star observed? ‘I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.’
 
Jerry Hall
Rachel Hunter
Sharon Osbourn
Yoko Ono
 

9

Which actress, sadly deceased, said? ‘The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby’.
 
Julie London
Katharine Hepburn
Marilyn Monroe
Natalie Wood
 

10

Which American comedienne said? ‘Men can read maps better than women. ‘Cause only the male mind could conceive of one inch equaling a hundred miles’.
 
Carol Burnett
Erma Bombeck
Roseanne Barr
Shirley Maclaine
 

11

Which French actress observed? ‘Men are beasts and even beasts don’t behave as they do’.
 
Brigitte Bardot
Catherine Deneuve
Edith Piaf
Juliette Binoche
 

12

Which British writer said? ‘The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things’.
 
Andrea Levy
Iris Murdoch
Jilly Cooper
JK Rowling
 

13

Which intrepid woman said? ‘Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.’
 
Amelia Earhart
Amy Johnson
Anne Lindbergh
Mata Hari
 

14

Which American comedienne observed? What’s with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
 
Erma Bombeck
Lucille Ball
Roseanne Barr
Whoopee Goldberg
 

15

Which singing and dancing star said? ‘The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it’.
 
Julie Andrews
Liza Minnelli
Nicole Kidman
Shirley MacLaine
 

16

Which politician said? ‘I married beneath me. All women do.’
 
Condoleeza Rice
Corazon Aquino
Mary Robinson
Nancy Astor
 

17

Which American singer said? ‘Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry’
 
Alanis Morissette
Celine Dion
Janis Joplin
Joan Baez
 

18

Which actress and activist said? ‘A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring’.
 
Bianca Jagger
Jane Fonda
Mia Farrow
Patti Hearst
 

19

Which humorist stated? ‘A girl’s best friend is her mutter’.
 
Dawn French
Dorothy Parker
Pam Ayres
Victoria Wood
 

20

Which respected writer noted? ‘The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life’s major mysteries’.
 
Doris Lessing
Iris Murdoch
Margaret Atwood
Nadine Gordimer
 

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