M Quotes
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“Men fear women, even as they work to make women fear men, because, on the most basic level, male dominance is an illusion. For patriarchy to work, men have to control literally every facet of sex and family life– who has sex, with whom, and when and whether they get pregnant, who owns the child, and who care for it– and given the unruly nature of sex and birth, this control is perpetually slipping out of their grasp. Patriarchy is inherently unsustainable: It is not possible to control another human being at every moment of every day. It is not possible to control what (or who) women want. It is not possible to own a resource that is located inside someone else's body, which sex and reproduction always are. And if women realied how fragile male control is, everything might change.
So, by constructing this patriarchy, men make monsters: the twisted, slimy, devouring, mutating, massively powerful images of female desire and sexuality and motherhood that take place outside of patriarchy. Monsters are the children that aren't supposed to exist, the feral desires we've fought to repress and forget, the outsiders waiting at the edge of our social world to confront us, the primeval, female body, that gives and takes life without permission. Men's dread of this power has given rise to countless, bluntly anatomical nightmares: corrupting uteruses poisonous blood, women who have slimy, serpentine tails instead of vaginas, or snakelike, elastic jaws that swallow men whole, or "castrated" women whose bodies are open wounds. A monster is a supposed-to-be-subjugated body that has become threatening and voracious– a woman who is, in the most basic sense, out of (men's) control.”
Source: Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
“Men feared witches and burned women.”
“Men fearing their innate power, pushed woman back into slavery.”
“Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.”
“Men feel about sex the way vampires feel about blood. They don't just like it, they crave it. That's why vampire stories always have strong sexual undercurrents. A vampire's hunger is simply a metaphor for a man's lust.”
“Men feel about sex the way vampires feel about blood. They don't just like it, they crave it. That's why vampire stories always have strong sexual undercurrents. A vampire's hunger is simply a metaphor for a man's lust. And if a guy is paying attention to you, he wants to have sex with you.”
Source: Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends
“Men feel challenged when a woman is in danger, so those types of stories interest women and they interest men on a level that the crimes against men tend to draw a different visceral reaction. Again, not saying it's right, but they tend to draw a different visceral reaction, which is that the man was out in the world doing men stuff and something happened to him.”
“Men feel cherished when they are needed.
Women feel cherished when they are loved.
Indonesian version (Bahasa):
Kaum pria jadi termotivasi dan bersemangat kala mereka merasa dibutuhkan.
Kaum wanita jadi termotivasi dan bersemangat kala mereka merasa dicintai.”
“Men feel like they can be a professional and a father. For women it's "or." That's offensive to me. The concept that it's not possible is crazy.”
“Men feel more bereft without a woman than women will feel bereft without a man”
“Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.”
“Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.”
“Men felt a chill in their hearts; a damp in their minds. In a desperate effort to snuggle their feelings into some sort of warmth,one subterfuge was tried after anothersentences swelled, adjectives multiplied, lyrics became epics.”
“Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.”
“Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.”
Source: Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition
“Men fight for lots of different reasons--some good, some really dumb--but as long as we can use our fists, we give it our all. It's when we have to fight with our hearts that we give nothing and end up with even less in return. Whether you want to admit it or not, Ev, that woman is your all or nothing.
- Reid to Evan”
Source: Love and Other Cosmic Nonsense
“Men fight wars. Women win them.”
“Men find a new universe of thought and feeling, clearer and more comprehensible than the universe of daily experience.”
“Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.”
“Men find it difficult because I've got so much energy and hardly sleep at night, only four or five hours. I wake up in the early hours and potter around.”
“Men find powerful women so threatening, and finding a partner was starting to look laughable, because I would be really attracted to guys and they would just be so threatened and I didn't like feeling threatening, I didn't want to feel threatened, I didn't want to feel like I was towering over anybody.”
“Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.”
Source: The New Science of Giambattista Vico
“Men first make up their minds (and the smaller the mind the sooner made up), and then seek for the reasons; and if they chance to stumble upon a good reason, of course they do not reject it. But though they are right, they are only right by chance.”
Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley
“Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition. So long as we are children we are attracted by toys, and the tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are all children attracted by trinkets. That may be claimed to be the purpose served by the Eiffel Tower.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“Men follow their sentiments and their self-interest, but it pleases them to imagine that they follow reason. And so they look for, and always find, some theory which, a posteriori, makes their actions appear to be logical. If that theory could be demolished scientifically, the only result would be that another theory would be substituted for the first one, and for the same purpose.”
Source: Manual of political economy
“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.”
Source: At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe
“Men forget everything; women remember everything.”
“Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replay in sports. They've already forgotten what's happened.”
“Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.”
Source: The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'
“Men forsook God, and made carved images of men. Since therefore an image of man was falsely worshipped as God, God became truly Man, that the falsehood might be done away.”
Source: The Sacred Writings of Cyril of Jerusalem (Annotated Edition)
“Men freely believe that which they desire.”
“Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.”
“Men from children nothing differ.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling
“Men from the mountains always dream of the sea, and above all things I love to travel.”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“Men før arbeiderklassen er skikket til å gripe makten ved revolusjon, til å lede, må den bli sin egen situasjon bevisst. Klarsynet oppnås bare ved at den falske bevisstheten arbeiderklassen lever under, avsløres: Arbeideren er i det kapitalistiske samfunn ikke et fritt individ, han bare narres av sine herskere til å tro at han er det.”
Source: Kateterprofetenes opprør: Arven fra Det nye venstre, og hvordan vår tids vekkelse kritiserer Vesten i stykker
“Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.”
“Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.”
“Men generally do not see women as competition.”
“Men generally don't recognize the authority of women", Levi said very gently. "It's the way of the world, Amelia. I'm sorry it distress you."
"The world", Amelia said, "is wrong about so many things.”
Source: The Mermaid
“Men generally pay for all expenses on a date ... either sex, however, may bring a little gift, its value to be determined by the bizarrness of the sexual request to be made later that evening.”
Source: Modern manners
“Men get brave by the brave actions, they win over their fear by understanding the nature of fear.”
Source: Spoor of an Indian Horse
“Men get brave only by brave actions”
Source: Spoor of an Indian Horse
“Men get it. I think us men need you women to help us survive.”
“Men get laid, but women get screwed.”
“Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
“Men get themselves in trouble over the three Bs. Booze, broads and bucks. Your competition isn’t booze or broads. Your husband’s lover is bucks. Your husband has a gambling addiction.”
Source: Running Stop Signs
“Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.”
Source: Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy
“Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.”
Source: The Crack-up
“Men get together in pretentious councils to decide what God is, what God thinks, what God wants the rest of us to do for him, and the one thing he never fails to want is more money.”