Barbara Walters Men Quotations

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

I happen to disagree with the well-entrenched theory that the art of conversation is merely the art of being a good listener. Such advice invites people to be cynical with one another and full of fake; when a conversation becomes a monologue, poked along with tiny cattle-prod questions, it isn't a conversation any more.

If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

...We believe that the damage to other countries (from high oil prices) is tremendous and we don't believe prices should be at this level,

I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.