I have to disagree with your mother Ralphy, most of the rewarding conversations and lovely experiences in my life have been with or because of women, and yes there have been painful times as well, but mainly due to my own stupidity and selfishness, in not hearing or understanding what the woman was saying or offering. Women are certainly not without fault, but less so than men from my experience.
In fact I feel much of the disastrous current state of the world has been caused mainly by men. I have always believed that women are the superior gender if they were in more control of the world it would possibly be a much more harmonious place to live in.
It only takes a few sociopathic men to mess up much of civilisation, which is happening now before our very eyes!! ...but that's another thread I guess!!
I don't feel money is evil either, its what you do with it that matters