“She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as women judge men — not on the strength of their arguments, and not on their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, the strength of their soul, their compassion, and — ah, this above all — their conversation.”
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)
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“The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.”
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part 1: The Myth of Male Power, p. 13.
“Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.”
As quoted in Nicky Woolf, "'PUAhate' and 'ForeverAlone': inside Elliot Rodger's online life", The Guardian (May 30, 2014)
Bodybuilding.com, PUAhate and ForeverAlone posts

“I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.”
Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

“Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.”

See also the Wikipedia article on the Lake Wobegon effect.
A Prairie Home Companion, News from Lake Wobegon