Quotes
Quotes about Men
The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.
Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.
Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds.
Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us.
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier.
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves. -Betty Friedan.
All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations. -Marge Piercy.
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -Rebecca West.
Women are the real architects of society. -Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. -Timothy Leary.
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes. -Clare Boothe Luce.
Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.
I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
