“If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.”– Gloria Steinem Related Quotes “She had abruptly flipped from the southern belle and was now putting on the extremely businesslike air of those perfectionist women who’d only worked in the professional world for two or three years before stopping to have children and were now terrified of not being taken seriously.”— Rebecca Makkai “I probably have more female friends than any man I’ve ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they’re generally mentally tougher, and they’re better listeners, and they’re more capable of surviving things. And most of the women that I like have a haunted quality – they’re sort of like women who live in a haunted house all by themselves.”— John Malkovich “A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they’re thinking about is how they look.”– Emma Thompson