Quotations about men and their place in the world. What men and women think about men: sometimes humorous, sometimes insightful, sometimes outrageous. (And no, I don’t agree with all of these!)
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
[M]en are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them unfit for government.
Had I been a man, I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was, my spirit found outlet in the air.
Men know everything – all of them – all the time – no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.
Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.
To understand how a society functions, you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
A lot of guys think the larger a woman’s breasts are, the less intelligent she is. I don’t think it works like that. I think it’s the opposite. I think the larger a woman’s breasts are, the less intelligent the men become.
It is men who face the biggest problems in the future, adjusting to their new and complicated role.
The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success.
A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.
Yes, I am crying although I am a man. But has not a man eyes! Has not a man hands, limbs, senses, thoughts, passions? Is he not fed with the wine food, hurt by the same weapons, warmed and cooled by the same summer and winter as a woman? If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? And if you poison us, do we not die? Why shouldn’t a man complain, a soldier weep? Because it is unmanly? Why is it unmanly?
I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He’s just incapable of it.
The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.
Men weren’t really the enemy — they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
Why do people say ‘grow some balls’? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.
I would like it if men had to partake in the same hormonal cycles to which we’re subjected monthly. Maybe that’s why men declare war — because they have a need to bleed on a regular basis.
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
I am neither a man nor a woman but an author.
The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
Behind every good man, there’s a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn’t have nothing.
Man is willing to accept woman as an equal, as a man in skirts, as an angel, a devil, a baby-face, a machine, an instrument, a bosom, a womb, a pair of legs, a servant, an encyclopedia, an ideal or an obscenity; the one thing he won’t accept her as is a human being, a real human being of the feminine sex.
Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste of power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children, or merely role models.
What’s wrong with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.
God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I’ve ever met.
It’s easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it is a problem to be overcome.
Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral philosophy and political theory have mostly been attempts to shift male human sexual competitiveness from physical violence to the peaceful accumulation of wealth and status. The rights to life, liberty, and property are cultural inventions that function, in part, to keep males from killing and stealing from one another while they compete to attract sexual partners.
All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can’t.
Here’s all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.
Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.
What passes for woman’s intuition is often nothing more than man’s transparency.
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
I think that testosterone is a rare poison.
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
Women fail to understand how much men hate them.
Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
Women have convinced ourselves that we can do what men can do. But we haven’t convinced ourselves and therefore haven’t convinced our country, that men can do what women can do.
If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn’t it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
