Quotes
Quotes about Men
The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.
What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What Men Want: Tickets for the world series.
Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty-five and forty, after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass forty, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed. -Edna O'Brien.
She was not a women likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an advantage.
It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.
Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancientâperhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.
Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
The society of women is the element of good manners.
Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks.
When women go wrong, men go right after them. -Mae West.
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. -Clare Booth Luce.
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.
A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.
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.
God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met. -Farrah Fawcett.
On one issue, at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
