Males Quotes - Page 13

• Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Giving Up, Mps, Law

  "Louis de Bernières: My family values". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.

  Bryan White

  Sticks, Categories, Tenors

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• To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Women, Order, Law

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.11, Grove Press

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• In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Pride, Men, Identity

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• The curse of modern times is the preponderance of male hormones in places where they can do long-term damage. Even if were not talking about wars between nations or assaults on nature, there's still that aggressiveness that keeps us apart from each other and the problems we need to be working on.

  Robert James Waller

  War, Talking, Long

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• The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by which we have evolved.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Echoes, Choices, Female

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• My own favorite is something called Rogue Male.

  Peter O'Toole

  Rogues, My Own

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• Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.

  Susan Faludi

  Men, Essentials, Culture

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• Do the Right Thing' was my first union film. I looked at the rosters, and for the most part, it was white males. Especially the Teamsters. So we had some conversations.

  Spike Lee

  White, Unions, Firsts

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• I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.

  John Malkovich

  Opportunity, Men, Thinking

  "Stage acting? It's just too hard". www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2005.

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• The pulp hero, though he may be a renegade, is a guy who doesn't feel. Anything. Ever. And for the adolescent male - pummeled by emotions left and right, whether arising from sexuality or resulting from his necessary encounters with authority - this hero is a blessing, a relief and a release. The world he lives in, where feelings are totally under control, looks to the adolescent boy like heaven! This hero's lack of feeling - like Star Trek's Spock - is what allows him to be a genius, or allows him to shoot the bad guys and/or aliens, without a quiver to his lip.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Stars, Hero, Boys

  "Space Cowboy: An Interview with Samuel R. Delany". Interview with Scott Westerfeld, www.nerve.com. 2001.

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• In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased with himself as he leaves the boudoir of a lady.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny, Humorous, Men

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• In Russia, if a male athelete loses he becomes a female athelete.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Funny, Humorous, Russia

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A reader kindly pointed out to me recently that most of the quotes I include are by men. And it's true. Personally, I don't even consider whether the author is male or female, nor even care much who the author is - what's significant is the message. Of course, women are equally capable of great insights, however in our culture it's not so long ago that women could not even be published

  Charlotte Bronte

  Men, Long Ago, Female

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• I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating.

  Richard Rohr

  Men, Differences, Style

  "Gender, God and Spirituality" by Fr. Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2012.

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• There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.153, Routledge

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• I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The languages, a year of rhetoric, all of the great books, Western Man courses, stuff like that.

  Stephen Colbert

  Book, College, Men

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. January 25, 2006.

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• Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.

  Kate Millett

  Depressing, Kindness, Facts

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• The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.

  Kate Millett

  Women, Exercise, Animal

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.119, Columbia University Press

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• My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.

  Stephen Bayley

  Wife, Cooking, Dinner

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• Male bashing is everywhere. It would be a mistake to view the current situation as another skirmish in the war between the sexes. Women have been doing the shooting, and men have been burying their heads in the sand, hoping the bullets will miss.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, War, Mistake

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• Our main reasons for fearing males having sex with males is that you really had to construct a more powerful social role to keep men in their place than you did to keep women in their place.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Powerful, Men

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• Women tend to give political candidates only about 10 percent of what males give, and males give women candidates only 10 percent of what they give to males.

  Maureen Reagan

  Giving, Political, Percent

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• It is well within the order of things
  That man should listen when his mate sings;
  But the true male never yet walked
  Who liked to listen when his mate talked.

  Anna Wickham

  Marriage, Women, Order

  'The Affinity'

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• To be sure he's a Man, the male must see to it that the female be clearly a Woman, the opposite of a Man, that is, the female must act like a faggot.

  Valerie Solanas

  Men, Opposites, Female

  Valerie Solanas (1971). “SCUM manifesto”

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