How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes just are, that they are in the nature of the beasts, because each sex has an evolved tendency to develop that way in response to experience.


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It's disgraceful. I like a laugh with the lads but I can't understand why there are no lasses to sha...
STUART RIDLEY
Just mention the idea of warrantless wiretaps and expect to get hit up with a congressional investig...
JOHN RIDLEY
By going to a preview, a director becomes insidiously infected by the process, so by the end of it, ...
RIDLEY SCOTT
It's remarkable that people will give you $10 million to go and get your rocks off.
RIDLEY SCOTT
With writing, timing is everything. Being in the right place at the right time.
JOHN RIDLEY
As an ex-stand up, I can tell you that a comedy club isn't a place you go looking to get the abu...
JOHN RIDLEY
'Family Secrets' is thought provoking, well written, and remorselessly intelligent.
JANE RIDLEY
I was always aware that this whole Earth is on overload.
RIDLEY SCOTT
Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.
JOHN RIDLEY
Our honored elderly would greatly benefit from community volunteers.
CHRIS RIDLEY
In the Everybody-Give-Me-A-Hug victim culture in which we live, the obese want a spot at the table a...
JOHN RIDLEY
When I go to business meetings, I'm still told way too often by some receptionist, 'The mail...
JOHN RIDLEY
The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on hete...
JOHN RIDLEY
I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away ...
RIDLEY SCOTT
Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.
RIDLEY SCOTT
Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns ...
RIDLEY SCOTT
Why is it that the very people who have fought so hard and so long for the simple entitlement to lov...
JOHN RIDLEY
Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no...
RIDLEY SCOTT
She would've made an excellent pirate.
ERICA RIDLEY
Moonseed Manor did not look like a place to live. Moonseed Manor looked like a place to die.
ERICA RIDLEY
From the moment we were first dumped in Jamestown and had our teeth checked before getting sold off ...
JOHN RIDLEY
A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'...
RIDLEY SCOTT
I had been very impressed with the voiceover of 'Apocalypse Now,' with Martin Sheen's vo...
RIDLEY SCOTT
The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.
RIDLEY SCOTT
Conservative talkers love to throw numbers around: their ratings and their audience size. And to be ...
JOHN RIDLEY
It's funny: over time, if you're fortunate, you build a nice career, and you have these inte...
JOHN RIDLEY
I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.
RIDLEY SCOTT
As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use o...
RIDLEY PEARSON
One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't don...
RIDLEY SCOTT
If you go back and look, a completely underrated film is 'Quest for Fire.' That was one of t...
RIDLEY SCOTT
The word 'comedy' implies slapstick.
RIDLEY SCOTT
Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for ...
JOHN RIDLEY
Let's be very clear: Living 'unforgiven' is not the sole domain of blacks. It can be fou...
JOHN RIDLEY
With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Poli...
JOHN RIDLEY
I like animals. I like people who like animals. I hate people who love animals to the point they los...
JOHN RIDLEY
I've got many letters from Muslim organizations thanking me for making 'Kingdom of Heaven.&#...
RIDLEY SCOTT
To most of us, adulthood means being able to earn a living, possess a home, get married and rear chi...
JANE RIDLEY
Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of these scary movies are not...
RIDLEY SCOTT
I like Wadi Rum - it's the best view I've ever seen of what could be Mars.
RIDLEY SCOTT
did a great job under challenging conditions.
FRED RIDLEY
This is a major advance for amateur golf.
FRED RIDLEY
This is a major advance for amateur golf. It gives amateurs who do not have access to substantial fa...
FRED RIDLEY
Hopefully, some of the seeds we're planting today will pay off and we'll be happier on this issue in...
FRED RIDLEY
The best stories come out of the truth.
RIDLEY SCOTT